School: Sisters of Charity Convent N.S., Bealach an Doirín
- Location:
- Ballaghaderreen, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: An tSr. Seosamh Ní Cheallaigh
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"Old Ballaghaderreen"
About the year 1825 there was a wood stretching from Edmonstown to Castlemore and there was a way cut through the wood to make the Stage Coach road. This is how Ballaghadereen got its name.
A few years later a family named Reids settled down by the Coach road, and the town grew around them. From the Court House to Durry's corner was a bog and residents of the town have seen turf cut there. Between Duff's hardware and Flannery's corner there was an(continues on next page)- Collector
- Kathleen Towey
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Towey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Doogary, Co. Roscommon