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School: Baltrasna (roll number 4086)

Location:
Baltrasna, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Shuibhne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0716, Page 344

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    name in Baltrasna.
    Six of them in Baltrasna are thatched and a Slated and one is Galvanized.
    Baltrasna must have got its name from Crossroads because there are a lot of Crossroads around it.
    Part of Baltrasna is very good land and part of it is boggy land.
    There is a big wood in Baltrasna and it belongs to Murdocks the name of the man that lived in it before Murdocks was O'Connor and before him it was O'Reilly.
    Mr O'Reilly had seven daughters and he set a tree for each daughter in the lawn and the seven trees were called the seven
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)
    Language
    English
    Location
    Baltrasna, Co. Meath
    Collector
    Etta Kearney
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Baltrasna, Co. Meath