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Máirtín Ó Direáin - Fathach File / Reluctant Modernist

Garraunbaun

Item

Title

Garraunbaun

Description

Set of index cards describing some of the local features of the townland of Garraunbaun, [An Gearrán Bán]. A story is relayed about how the townland got its name, a white gelding. Features described include Ballinakill Chapel, Garraunbaun Doon, McMurray's carpets, a Standing Stone (possibly the rock called Gearrán Bán), the Nursery, a court tomb, and Garraunbaun House. Mr Lydon of Tooreen, Mike Gibbons, and the Galway Archaeological Survey are credited as being sources of local information.
Garraunbaun.

Format

9pp

Identifier

nuigalway:2582
ead-unitid: p120_1_3_30

Relation

Tim Robinson
full:001:https://digital.library.nuigalway.ie/islandora/object/nuigalway:2582
thumb:001:https://digital.library.nuigalway.ie/islandora/object/nuigalway:2582/datastream/TN/view

Subject

describing--Garraunbaun--described--Ballinakill--Garraunbaun--McMurrays--possibly--Garraunbaun--Archaeological--information--Ballinakill Civil Parish Ballynakill or Letterfrack Roman Catholic Parish