School: Maigh Ard
- Location:
- Moyard, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Dubhshlain
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- Moyard: a village, it means on a high plain, The name comes from the Irish for high plain.
Garraunbawn: The Irish for white horse. There is an old story that there were seven sisters drowned in a lake in the village, and that every seven years since then a white horse comes out of the lake.
Cnockmaráh: The hill of the fort.
Ballinakill: The village of the church.
Bundailish: The Irish for at the bottom of two fairy forts.
Kylemore: The Irish for a big wood.- Collector
- Beartley King
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moyard, Co. Galway