School: Clochar na Trocaire, Cinn Mhara
- Location:
- Kinvarra, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Siúr M. Bernadette
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- Districts and places get their names from fields, heathery hills, streams, heights, rocks, and old bushes. In our parish there is a place called Newtown long ago it was called tobar an caillige (?) There was an old forge in it once and it was knocked down and a house was built there and it was haunted and anybody who would pass during the night would be injured. A horse would not pass it out, with fear she would turn back. People said that if the house was knocked they would not touch anybody so it was knocked and a well sprang up and they called it the well of the women (?) Water got scarce and the well was full of(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary A. Hughes
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilcolgan, Co. Galway
- Informant
- James Quinn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilcolgan, Co. Galway