School: Coolderry
- Location:
- Coolderry, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: L. Mac Conriada
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0818, Page 073
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- (continued from previous page)ridiculed them. The lough suddenly sprang up round him & downed horses and himself.Boveen got its name from the following incident. A long time ago when people came to live there there was in posession of the place a wild animal very fierce & much the shape of a small cow which killed many of the early settlers in that place until eventually after sustained efforts the beast was killed. On account of its likness to the cow & being small it was called bóvín or "Small cow".How Coolderry or Cúl Doire or Daire - meaning the back of the oak got its name is very hard to understand seeing that the predominant tree in the townland is the beech.
