School: Ballinorley (roll number 11597)

Location:
Bellanurly, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Mrs Anna Ewing
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    one house in ruins. The people who owned it died years before anybody remembers. No people left for America from there in former times. The townland is not mentioned in any song or saying. The land is both hilly and boggy as it is just under Benbulbin mountain. There are woods on the mountain side belong to the Hazelwood Demense. The woods are about a mile long and a quarter of a mile deep. The river drains Lough Gill with Drumcliffe Bay. At different points it has differents names. Collinsford is near our house. There is a small iron bridge there called Cogginsford Bridge & Collinsford
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    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Olive Hudson
    Gender
    Female