School: Clews' Memorial (roll number 15465)
- Location:
- Boyle, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Máire Ní Néill
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- (continued from previous page)in the house while he was out working as it was sure to be stolen. He always put whatever meal he had, in a paper, and wore it in the crown of his old hat at his work.
- Tóċar Alluis : at Jimmy Sheridan's, in Corraduoy. The road is raised one side on the slope of a hill, and there is a fall in the road towards the other side. This part of the road is called "Tóċar Alluis"
- Cor na Siḋe is a little hill on the farm of John Walsh, Doon, Boyle. It is so called because a fairy king named Guaire had his palace there. There is no trace of the palace now.Carán is a rising eminence in the centre of the Sheegora Woods (Sheegora Townland, Boyle Parish). Guaire, the fairy king, is supposed to be buried there. A ring of laurel-trees crowns Carán(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Thomas Mc Garry
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Sheegorey, Co. Roscommon