1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Newtown, Kells

School: Newtown, Kells (roll number 5053)

Location:
Newtown (Shea), Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
(name not given)
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0858B, Page 16_041

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0858B, Page 16_041

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Newtown, Kells
  2. XML Page 16_041
  3. XML “Local Place Names”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Local Place Names (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    where James Sweeney is living at present.
    Delaneys owned the mill.
    There is a village near Dunamaggin called "Bárr Scuab" which means the top of the brush.
    "Bally Glugis" a field on Hughe's land in Daingean Mór.
    Daingean Mór was called after a big fort there.
    There is a poem about Grange.
    "Grange of the grove of the Black stick,
    When Muldonney buried his black pig."
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Máire Ní Annracán
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kells, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    Mary Carroll
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    74
    Address
    Kells, Co. Kilkenny