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School: Moylough (C.) (roll number 13832)

Location:
Moylough, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Margaret Devine
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0170, Page 0063

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    locally in former times for there are three in ruins now. The majority of the boys and girls emigrated to America until the restriction prevented them from going.
    There is scarcely a hill in the district the land being low and level only broken now and then by gently rising slopes. There was a small wood on John Cooke's estate but there are only a four trees standing there to mark where the wood was. There is a little lake in the townland and a stream running from it to the bog. The land on the whole is good clay land and there is an extensive bog stretching between Moylough and Ballincurry.
    Kathleen Gildea,
    Moylough,
    Tubbercurry,
    Co. Sligo.
    Material obtained from my grandfather.
    James Brennan
    Moylough,
    Tubbercurry, Co. Sligo.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Gildea
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Moylough, Co. Sligo
    Informant
    James Brennan
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Moylough, Co. Sligo