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School: Knocknagilla

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Knocknagillagh, Co. Cavan
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T. Mac Giolla Críost
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0979, Page 313

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    into their houses during the day. These were broken by night for four pence per ton.
    Before that year this road was only a narrow crooked lane and was branched off in different places.
    Before that time there were nearly no roads and no carts. There was one road supposed to be made straight through Ireland from Galway to Dundalk now called the 'high' road. It leads through Moynehall and on through our Parish, but owing to Lavey hill been so steep, a road was made called the 'Dark' road and it is connected again at Borrowe's Lake with the high road. The traces of the old road re till to be seen.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. public infrastructure
          1. roads (~2,778)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Charles Tierney
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Aghadreenagh, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Bernard Connelly
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Luke Tierney
    Gender
    Male