School: Drumgossatt (C.)
- Location:
- Drumgoosat, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Áine Nic Ghráinne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0930, Page 118
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- (continued from previous page)thatch on them, and the other our are slated. there are two old people in Stranatone over seventy years - James McEntee and Mary Corbally. The land is hilly with a small patch of bog. there is a river at every side of the townland. The name of the largest river is the Glyde, and the other is Ponines.
Derrynaglagh:- There are ten families in this townland and fifty inhabitants. The family name of Lambe is the most common, there being two families which hold the same name. There are ten houses in it, five of them are thatched and the remaining five are slated. Derrynaglagh means the hill of the stones. The soil is good, but some of it is boggy and subject to floods.
