School: Gearrbhaile (Garbh-dhoire?) (roll number 12110)

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   “A field in Gurteendush is called Poll Capall.”

   

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   Poll na gCasán (Colmanstown)
   The well had so many paths leading to it it became known as Poll na gCasán.

   Dún Áin
   Named after a chieftain named Án who lived there and whose burial place is supposed to be on the top of a hill in the vicinity.

   Tobar Geal in Doonaun. It is believed locally it's water is changed into wine for one minute every Oiche Shamhna.

   A hole in a field in Carrowmore is pointed out as the bed of a well where a woman washed her hands and it is dry every since.

   The Burned House of Mullach Mór
   The four walls remain standing. There is a local legend that when the house was just built a fairy woman passed and foretold that as many tears would be shed there "as would boil a pot of potatoes". Next day three men were killed there when the house was struck by lightning.

   Another legend has it that it was a house of ill-fame and that it was burned with all it's occupants.

   Gort Ghlas - So called because corn which was sown there at one time never ripened but remained green.

   Páirc Thomáis - (Skehana) so called from it's owner, Tomás.

   Peg's Well (Clooncurreen) called after an old woman named

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   Topics

   1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)

   Languages

   Irish

   English

   Informant

   Tannian

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   60

   Address

   Ballynamona, Co. Galway