School: Mercy Convent, Belturbet
- Location:
- Belturbet, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- (continued from previous page)to England from this district but very few went to America or Australia. Three of the families are Protestants, and the remainder are Roman Catholics.
Most of the houses are thatched. About six of them are slated. The thatched houses are one storey high, and the slated houses are two storey high. There is one in ruins.
Part of the land is good and part of it is bad and boggy. There is a big wood in it called the "Gortaquill Wood". There are no streams or rivers in it.
It gets its name from the two Irish words gort-na-coille which means woody field.- Collector
- Mary K. Mc Cartan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gortaquill, Co. Cavan