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School: Faithche (Buachaillí)

Location:
Fahy More, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Mícheál Ó Cinnéide
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0087, Page 353

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    (continued from previous page)
    and fifty. It was then used by the people for their accommodation that lived in the villages of Druimgoony and Thuargarbh for drawing turf a with donkeys to the old flax - mill at Brochagh as a great bog then stretched along the southern end of these villages. After the clearance in eighteen hundred and fifty two, Lord Lucan put this road in repair for his own accommodation for carrying corn to Castlebar from his threshing Mill which he erected in his farm-yard at Brockagh where Mr. Kennedy's house now stands.
    There was also an old road formed from the point where the last named road started
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. public infrastructure
          1. roads (~2,778)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Brigid Gravin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Gortnaclassagh, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Patrick Gravin
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Gortnaclassagh, Co. Mayo