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 072

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0180, Page 072

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  2. The road running from Riverstown to Ross was only an old lane long ago. In the year 1888 a man named Tom Tiernan, from Geevagh made a road of it. in 1925 it was continued into Cultydine by a man named Kilduff. From the above-mentioned road there runs a road to Templemore Graveyard, but it was all a "Green Road" until lately when some of it was covered with stones.
    The road from Riverstown to Gleann was made about two hundred years ago. There is not much traffic on it now
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