School: Inis Mac ón Tír (roll number 12854)
- Location:
- Inis Mhic an Trír, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: Muireann Bean Uí Chuinneagáin
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- There is a small stream flowing through the wood outside Headford and in this stream there are stepping stones. (Ford) Tradition says that a battle was fought near this stream. At the battle a big number of people were massacred. Their heads were cut off flung into the river which carried them down to this ford, hence the name - Hd. Ford. A man who was challenged to go there for penance(continues on next page)