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School: Lemanaghan, Ballycumber

Location:
Lemanaghan, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
Máire Galvin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0810, Page 036

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0810, Page 036

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    but none of them know Irish. Almost all of them can tell old stories in English. There were seventeen more houses in Lemonaghan in former times which were knocked down by the crow-bar brigade in the year 1798 and almost all the inhabitants emigrated to America.
    The centre of Lemonaghan is good fertile land but it is surrounded by bog. There is a small oak wood in the Lemonaghan bog which is called (Doirin a Mill) Derien a Meele. Lemonaghan is bounded by the Brosna river on the south eastern side and by the Great Southern-Railway on the North-western side.
    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
    Lemanaghan, Co. Offaly
    Collector
    Máire Níc Aonghusa
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Lemanaghan, Co. Offaly
    Informant
    Peter Mc Guinness
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Lemanaghan, Co. Offaly