School: Gort an Locha (roll number 1414)
- Location:
- Gortalough, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: S. Ó Docraigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0182, Page 625
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- (continued from previous page)all times of the year in this locality. The sportsman visits the place, but owing to the situation of this particular part of the town-land, the wild birds have complete security, and althugh the sportsman's gun may be heard, yet he invariably goes away with an empty bag.
Partly forming the boundary between Corradoo and Bunnadubber is an alt, which we believe formed the coarse of a river in days gone by. In places, it is about fifty feet deep, and is over twenty wide. During the rainy season a big current of water flows through it still, and in the Summer and Autumn, it is completly dry, for the water coming from the Limnagh and Ballaghboy bogs disappear in a Swallowhole. It is now covered in with bushes of all sorts, hazels, sloes and briars grow in abundance, and during the blackberrying season, it is the scene of mirth and laughter, for children come to gather the the fruits.
It is a favourite resort too for all wild animals of the locality. The rabbit(continues on next page)
