School: Tisaran
- Location:
- Moystown Demesne, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: M. Ní Éireamhóin
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- My home is in the townland of Moystown in the district of Belmont. It is a very wooded place and very boggy. There are many ruins of mills. castles and houses. The only river that flows through it is the Brosna. There is a drain also called Balla Drain and it is very important as it drains many people's lands. It flows into the Shannon in Winter but in Summer it is dry unless the Summer is a very wet one. Up the river about 300 yards from the bridge there is supposed to be a very deep hole and once a boat sank there, and there is a light seen which rises where the boat sank(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Domhnaill Mac Cioráin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Moystown Demesne, Co. Offaly