School: Geevagh (roll number 1213)

Location:
Geevagh, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Seán Ó Gallchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0181, Page 207

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  1. The village of Geevagh is situated on the Sligo - Ballyfarnon road, parish of Geevagh, barony of Tirerill, Co. Sligo.
    There are about ten houses in it and about fifty inhabitants.
    All the houses are slated or tiled.
    The river Féoris flows near the village and in the summer fishermen come fishing along its bank.
    A few hundred yards from where I live, there is an old house "The Lodge" where a landlord named Keogh lived about thirty-five years ago.
    The word Geevagh comes from words Gaoth-Magh meaning the wind-plain.
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