School: Gleann an Dúin - Prison (roll number 17042)
- Location:
- Prison East, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire A. Ní Dhocartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0095C, Page 01_041
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- (continued from previous page)see one of them from another I expect that if a beacon were raised on one fort it could be seen from the other. Patsy Ausboro says that it is always possible to see a signal given in one fort from at least two others.
There is a fort quite near this school. It was on that account that the late Manager Very Rev. Canon Reidy R.I.P. changed the name of the school from Prison to Gleann an Dúin. He thought that it was a more pleasant sounding name that Prison. This particular fort has been divided by a ditch. It is most unusual to find them interfered with in any way.
Patsy Ausboro tell me that when this farm was being divided that the mearing fence happened to be planned across this fort. The workmen refused to dig(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary A. O' Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Patsy Ausboro
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 84
- Address
- Tawnagh More, Co. Mayo
