School: Convent Girls' School, Ballymote
- Location:
- Ballymote, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Sr. M. Patrick
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0183, Page 195
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- (continued from previous page)killed in the wars.
Many years
afterwards the sons of the men
concerned in the dream dug
the field from end to end
but failed to get the treasure.This story
has a special significance
in view of the name
of the townland in which
the “Carraigin” is situated.In Joyces
Irish names of Places “Tawnytaskin”
is given as meaning
“Tamnac an ugeiscinn” “green
field of the marsh.” But my
mother told me that her
grandfather Patrick Coleman of
the dream told her that he often
heard the old people say that
the name had some reference
to eascú or eascon an eel.
Or could it be
possible that both meanings
are wrong and that the name
refers to Taisce a treasure.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Barnes
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballymote, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- John J. Cole
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tawnytaskin, Co. Roscommon
