School: Abbeytown Convent N.S. (roll number 15043)

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   Derrynabrone:- This is the name of a townland and during the famine years hundreds of people died with starvation and hunger in this wooded stony and unfertile district. Hence it got the name "Doire-an-Brón" - the wood of sorrow which means the state of grief and loneliness in which the people who survived were in, after the death of their friends.
   Derrynaluggie:- This is the name of a townland and as a big bog covers a large tract of it and as a wood once covered it, it got the Irish name "Doire na Boghaighe" which means the wet soft low-lying wood.
   Derrynatummie:- This is the name of a townland. This townland was only after been planted with little trees when the tyrannical English came and cut them down, hence it got the name "Doire na dTom :- the wood of the little trees.
   Derryadagh:- This is the name of a townland. This district was once covered with an oak wood hence it got the name

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)

   Language

   English

   Location

   Boyle, Co. Roscommon

   Collector

   Mary C. Ewings

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Kilmactranny, Co. Sligo

   Informant

   Mr P. Martin

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Cartron, Co. Roscommon