School: Lisdoonan
- Location:
- Lisdoonan, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: S. Mac an Éanaigh
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- (continued from previous page)England in later years and a good number of girls also. There is a lot of people from our district in U.S.A. but not many have gone lately. There are several people in our district who have been in U.S.A.
- A lot of townlands around got Irish names long ago and the name ours got was Cormoy which means 'the round hill of the little plain'. It is very small townland and there are not many houses in it. There are only five or six houses in it altogether. There is a lake in this townland and a lot of little rivers separate a lot of the farms. There are only two families in this townland that have the same name namely McCabe. On a lot of the farms the old people can show(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ena Mc Cabe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cormoy, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Owen Mc Cabe
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male