School: Moys (roll number 10837)
- Location:
- Moy Otra, Co. Monaghan
- Teachers: P. Dawson C. Mac an Ghirr
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- (continued from previous page)There is a field in Shanmullagh (pron. Shamla) called Glenfonta. Also a hill called Shillin hill where corn was shilled in olden times to remove seed.
Cams were pots in which resin was boiled to make candles.
Man-o-war hill near Keady so called because a battle was fought there.
Mudwall row also near Keady so called because there was a row of mudwall houses there about 100 years ago.
The "Bar" is in Shanmullagh. It is a kind of cross roads where Fenian meetings were held.
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“Boxty bread was made in the time of the Famine.”
Boxty bread was made in the time of the Famine. The potatoes were black so the people grated and squeezed the starch out of them and mixed it with flour.When the Boxty mill began to still
They thought it was the divil o
They lifted it up in handfuls
and they threw it on the griddle oSowens are made still here.
