School: Baile Idir Dhá Abhainn (roll number 13196)

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1. Local Place Names (continued)

   

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   In the townland Ardagh there is
   a field called "Paírc na Mallacht" near the
   the ruins of Temple More church,
   Monks owned that field and they
   used to feed sheep on it.

   One day the landlord's son
   went to dinner in the monastery
   which was beside the church. He
   wondered how the monks could have
   such nice mutton and he got to know
   that it was from the sheep which were
   fed on the field belonging to the monks.

   When he went home he told his
   father who put out the monks and
   took the field. The monks cursed the
   field and all the sheep the landlord
   put on it died.

   

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   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