School: Stormanstown, Ardee (roll number 9371)

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1. Place Names - Townland of Rathory (continued)

   

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   the Carricks. In the middle of it there is a round mound covered with trees. Around this mound the grass in the field is like a velvet lawn, and the fairies are supposed to dance round this mound in the moonlight.
   There are horse stables all through the plantations.
   -Berna Mathews, Arthurstown, Ardee, Co. Louth
   Mrs. Callan and others say that the chapel referred to overleaf was in Reaghstown, not Rathory, and was on Pat McKeever's (now Peter Hoey's) land. It was in use as a R.C. church up to the time the present church was built. P. O'Ceallaigh

   

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2. Place Names - Roseybrook

   

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   There are many names of fields in the townland of Roseybrook. The Smoothing Iron is so called because it is of the shape of a smoothing iron. In the School Park there was once a school. The Long Field is about sixty perches long.

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   Language

   English

   Location

   Charlestown, Co. Louth

   Collector

   John Kearney

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Roseybrook, Co. Louth