School: Mullach na Sídhe (C.) (roll number 15426)
- Location:
- Fairymount, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhubhthaigh
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- XML “Moyne Village”
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- Our Village Fairymount is situated between Castlerea + Frenchpark. It is a Fair sized Village but it was much larger long ago. It is said that from Lisdrumneil cross roads to Fairymount a distance of half a mile there were about thirty-eight [interlined with carat: "houses"] while now there are only about four.
There was an old house at the cross roads and a man named Foley lived in it and my grandmother bought some of his [written above: "land"] + Father Monahon bought the rest. Our stable is built now where his house was
It is said that man was a great story teller + that all the people used to ramble in his house every-night to listen to his stories. - You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.
- Collector
- Brigidh Nigh Riabhaig
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Moyne, Co. Roscommon