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School: Lenamore, Rathowen (roll number 5115)

Location:
Lenamore, Co. Longford
Teacher:
Brian Mac Tomas
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0769, Page 207

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    The old Irish name for Killeen was Culleen. It got its name from a little wood that was there in olden times. There are five people over seventy years of age. None of those can speak Irish. There were more houses in Killeen in olden days than there are now.
    Numbers of people from the townland emigrated to North and South America. I heard of a little rhyme about the girls of Killeen which says -
    "The Culleen girls
    Their eyes are red
    Blowing the fire
    To the Indian bread."
    Some of the land is very good while more of it is rushy and wet. A bog
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)
    Language
    English
    Location
    Killeen, Co. Longford
    Collector
    Philomena Newman
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    14
    Address
    Killeen, Co. Longford