School: Achadh Conaire (roll number 4487)

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   Local Place Names

   Ireland is divided into four provinces .Those provinces are divided into counties. The counties are divided into baronies. The baronies are divided into parishes, and the parishes into townlands.

   Long ago when Ireland was ruled by her own people they named the counties, baronies, and townlands from some local source, Drinane for instance, the townland in which I live myself. Drinane means the blackthorn. There is a big hill in this townland which is supposed to be the second highest hill in the barony of Corn. (?) The fences on this hill are covered with a shrub called blackthorn. Hence Drinane got its name.

   Roadstown the next townland derived its name from a town or village on the road which ran through the middle of roadstown. This village has long disappeared. The land belonging to the villagers was turned into a big farm and given to an aristocratic family, the last of whom died only a few years ago. Another townland in my neighbourhood is Cloonameehan. The lands of Cloonameehan at one time belonged to an old chief named Meehan. It was on his land that the old monastery, the ruins of which we see to-day was built. This land is now divided into many farms and occupied by several people.

   

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   Topics

   1. objects
      1. man-made structures
         1. buildings
            1. schools (~4,094)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Nora Gormanly

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Drinaun, Co. Sligo