School: Kiltrustan (roll number 4111)

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1. The Local Patron Saint (continued)

   

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   disbelieved about the Catholic saying. They sent out for water to the well and put it down [covered by a stain] but old people say it never did boil [covered by a stain]

   

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2. Local Place Names

   

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   Local Place Names. On our farm at Creta the fields are named Church-park which is a field of twelve Irish acres which rises to a hill in the front of the house. At the end next the house is an echo, by standing there and speaking high the words are again repeated in a few seconds. A lone ash-tree stands in the centre. To the East is a small fort. There is an old road adjoining this field to the West now used as a short way. In olden times it was the public road. The School House field is to the West of this road at the angle of which stands the present-school. Crossing the public road to the North we get the Curragh bottoms. Through these bottoms flows a spring stream having its

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Nora Hughes

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Creta, Co. Roscommon