1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Scoil na mBráthar, Inis

School: Scoil na mBráthar, Inis (roll number 16677)

Location:
Ennis, Co. Clare
Teacher:
An Br. Ó Lionnáin
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0609, Page 162

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0609, Page 162

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Scoil na mBráthar, Inis
  2. XML Page 162
  3. XML “How My District Got Its Name”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. How My District Got Its Name

    Share Share Post
    How my District got Its Name
    My district is know by the name Connolly which of course is an English name but its proper name is Fiadhach Ruadh. The following story explains the reason for calling it such.
    It is situated about ten miles west of Ennis. A long time ago there was a deer roaming about my district which is near Mount Callan. Each day he went to the top of the mountain for a drink of water and every night he used to eat the crops in the farmers. One day they held a meeting to find a means of killing the deer. He took the
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Location
    Connolly, Co. Clare
    Collector
    Seán Mac Carthaigh
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Connolly, Co. Clare