School: Drumgossatt (B.) (roll number 14071)
- Location:
- Drumgoosat, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: T. Ó Muireadhaigh
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- (continued from previous page)field. Crumlin is called so because there is a crooked glen in it.
There is a fort called Lios na Caonigh, the Fort of the Crying because when a funeral occurred they commenced crying from that fort to the graveyard.
Rooney's Field because a man named Rooney lived there and was dead some time before he was found.
An Corruigh Mór because it's a wet marshy field.
Biddy Boy was a woman lived there for some time and she bled to death in the house.
Valden's an old man and when he was dying he had only the one roof over his head.
The Mullagh is a very high hill in Tonaneave. It got its ancient name Mullagh because it is the highest hill in Tonaneave.
Sylvester's Garden is in Tonaneave. It is called this name because Sylvester owned it. His old house is at the top of it.
Páirc a Liosa is the Field of the Fort because there is a fort in the side of it.
Tullylougherney is called the townland of the rushes because it is nearly all rushes and bog.
Peter Martin was an old man. The(continues on next page)
