School: Clooney, Cuinche
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- Teacher: Mícheál Mac Clúmháin
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“The old name of the townland now called Newgrove, was Ballyslattery”
You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.- A very old road can still be traced over Feequin Hill, through Cullenagh and Ballymaclune, to the village of Kilkishen.
On the side of this old road is a heap of stones called leacht na marbh. In olden times when funerals would pass this way, a stone would be thrown each time on the heap,