(gan teideal)

“There is a tower in Clane, and there once stood a great monastery. There is a winding stairs in the tower.”

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Patrick Condron

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(gan teideal)

“About a mile north of Clane there is a place called Maingham. This was the burial place of Danish Kings.”

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Patrick Curry, William Graham

Maighneán, Co. Chill Dara

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(gan teideal)

“Near the Curragh there is place) a place called Donnelly's Hollow.”

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Anne Byrne, Patrick Brearton

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(gan teideal)

“In Rathcoffey there is the ruins of a great castle. Hamilton Rowan lived there.”

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Patrick Graham, Robert Dunne

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(gan teideal)

“Blackwood is a very histor-ical place. There is an old castle there.”

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Patrick Condron

Coill na Cúirte, Co. Chill Dara

Tras-scríbhinn

(gan teideal)

“Before Newbridge was founded it was called O'Connell Mór.”

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Laurence O' Neill

Droichead Nua, Co. Chill Dara

Tras-scríbhinn

(gan teideal)

“Newbridge is not a very ancient town. It was called O'Connell Mór formerly.”

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Laurence O' Neill

Droichead Nua, Co. Chill Dara

Tras-scríbhinn

(gan teideal)

“There were foctroies in Prosperous long ago, a hat factory, a cotton factory, and a linen factory.”

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W. Fallon

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(gan teideal)

“Wolfe Tone was a traitor to the English, he was in the English army.”

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Thomas Walsh

Tras-scríbhinn

(gan teideal)

“There is a well in Landenstown and it was used by a woman named Mrs Digby who lived there.”

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Thomas Walsh

Tras-scríbhinn

(gan teideal)

“There is a cross about a quarter of a mile from Prosperous and it is called Hatter's Cross...”

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Thomas Fitzpatrick

Tras-scríbhinn

(gan teideal)

“To see one magpie on a journey is said to be lucky but to see two magpies is unlucky.”

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Patrick Hughes

Tras-scríbhinn

(gan teideal)

“There were many battles in Prosperous in the time of the Old Britons.”

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W. Fallon

Tras-scríbhinn

(gan teideal)

“There was a large factory at the Hatter's-cross called the hat factory.”

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Patrick Condron

Tras-scríbhinn

(gan teideal)

“In Curryhills there was a linen factory. Between Sallins and Landenstown there is a well and...”

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Patrick Condron

Tras-scríbhinn

(gan teideal)

“There lived in Killybegs long ago a Priest named Rev. Father Higgins.”

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Thomas Fitzpatrick

Tras-scríbhinn

(gan teideal)

“There is a cure used by an old woman in Prosperous for a sore throat.”

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Teresa Muldoon

Tras-scríbhinn

(gan teideal)

“There is a castle in Blackwood which belonged to the Fitzgeralds of Leinster.”

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Daniel Neill

Tras-scríbhinn

(gan teideal)

“Cornelius Kay was a hadge school master in Prosperous and he was a great poet.”

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Thomas Fitzpatrick

Tras-scríbhinn

(gan teideal)

“In the centre of Killybegs graveyard there stands the remains of a once beautiful Catholic Church.”

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Mrs A. Mc Carthy

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