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School: Coolanarney

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Coolanarney, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
D. Mac Gairbhíth
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0809, Page 285

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  1. Local Place Names

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    There are a lot of different names for places on my district. There are a lot of names for fields some of the names are, The Castle field. There was a castle in that field. The convent field because it is beside the ruins of an old convent. The long field Cahals garden, Roses garden. Teerneys' field. There was mass said in the Convent field in the Penal times.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    2. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Kieran Conway
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cully, Co. Offaly

  2. Local Poets

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    There was one poet in my district. Michael Mahon. He lived about fifty years ago. He was
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