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Máirtín Ó Direáin - Fathach File / Reluctant Modernist

Streamstown or Barratrough

Item

Title

Streamstown or Barratrough

Description

Set of index cards giving a brief description of the townland of Streamstown or Barratrough, [Barr an tSrutha]. Included are descriptions of what Robinson describes as a "rather complicated megalith". He refers to a corresponding sketch in one of his notebooks.. Further descriptions are given of Toabh an Locha, the slab (a site for turf cutting), an early Christian rath, Loch Tanaí, Teampall Atha Deirg (the church of Athdearg), a note on Streamstown where there is a house known as Coney's, a waterfall, and a rookery. Also included are a brief description of Streamstown Bay, and Cloghalegaun. Mike Gibbons and Pappy Mannion are credited as being local sources of information.
Streamstown or Barratrough.

Format

13pp

Identifier

nuigalway:2724
ead-unitid: p120_1_6_54

Relation

Tim Robinson
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Subject

description--Streamstown--Barratrough--tSrutha--descriptions--describes--complicated--megalith--corresponding--notebooks--descriptions--cutting--Christian--Athdearg--Streamstown--waterfall--description--Streamstown--Cloghalegaun--information--Omey Civil Parish Clifden Roman Catholic Parish