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School: Baile Idir Dhá Abhainn (roll number 13196)

Location:
Riverstown, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Ml. Mac Lochlainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0180, Page 049

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    (continued from previous page)
    ventured to bury him. After some time a lake
    covered his body. The put the name
    Lough-na Suil on it which means lake
    of the eye.
    About a mile and a half
    from Riverstown there is a place called
    Tawnagh. There was one a convent in
    it where the first nuns of Ireland are
    supposed to have lived.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    In the townland of Ardkeerin
    there is a portion of land called the
    "Half-quarter". How it got its name is
    because it is one eight of the town-
    land of Ardkeerin.
    Ardkeerin got its name by the
    berries that used to grow on the
    mountain ash trees which grew there
    (continues on next page)
    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
    Sheila T. O' Dowd
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ardvarney, Co. Sligo