School: Clonmellon (B.) (roll number 9500)

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1. Local Place Names

   

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   The "Mounument Hill" got its name from an accident that occured there. It is believed that a man was riding on horseback up that hill and the horse took fright and threw him and he was killed. There was a cross put there and is why it is called "The Monument Hill". That hill is in Killua (?) "Cnoc na Teine" which is near Drewstown means "The Hill of Fires", where the Druids are supposed to have lit their fires. The right name for Drewstown is "Druid's Town". "----- HILL" in Killua is called that name because people mamed - owned it. "The Green Hill" so called because it was always a grazing field. Nobody ever remembers seeing it tilled.

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
         1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Seán D'Arsaigh

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   Tomás Ó Cartaigh

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Clonmellon, Co. Westmeath

2. Games

   

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   Horns are made by boys taking the bottom out of a bottle and that is done either by putting about an inch of water in the bottle and by putting it on the fire and it will

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