School: Maoláin (roll number 6704)
- Location:
- Mullaun, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Ó Brádaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0198, Page 240
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“In our townland there are not many hills, fields or hollows bearing any historic names.”
(continued from previous page)round the fort and took a pain in her knee. She went home and died shortly afterwards. Her parents, it is said, thought it was the fairies who killed her to get her into their own power. "The "Shreheen" got its name by being a small field on the edge of a stream. "Briscloonagh" is our own townland and got it's name from the ditches being broken down around the meadows.Outside our townland there are a few historic names of fields in Micky Andrew's Park, Norrie Cosies Hollow and Mickies Rose. "Mickey Andrew's Park" (about one hundred yards to the right off the main Manorhamilton - Eniskillen road about three miles from Manorhamilton) gets it's name from a man called Mickey Andrew who owned it and sold it. "Norrie Cosies Hollow" (about a half mile to the right off the main Manorhamilton Eniskillen road four and half miles from Manorhamilton) got it's name from an old maid who lived at the foot of(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Bridget Travers
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Briscloonagh, Co. Leitrim