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Máirtín Ó Direáin - Fathach File / Reluctant Modernist

Leitir Daibhche

Item

Title

Leitir Daibhche

Description

Set of index cards describing the physical features of Leitir Daibhche [Letterdyfe]. Leitir Daibhche is located within the Roman Catholic Parish of Roundstone, and within Moyrus Civil Parish. Features described include Bartley's Bullock, an area located around a small cave, and a note of how it came to be named. Letterdyfe Hill, Flagger's Hotel (a bend in the road surrounded by New Zealand flax, similar to yellow iris, or 'flagger'), Gleann Uisce, Fiodán, Loch na bhFaoileann, An Meall Mór, The Moot (moate), Loftaí, Seanadh Slí, Cnoc an gCorréal, Letterdyfe House (home of agents, the Robinson family), Curlew Quay, Seanadh bPoll, The Snipe Marsh, Caorán Elder. Some local sources are credited as providing information, these are named as John King, Joseph Conneely, Tommy O'Donnell, and Philip Robinson from Dublin.
Leitir Daibhche.

Format

19pp

Identifier

nuigalway:2444
ead-unitid: p120_1_1_41

Relation

Tim Robinson
full:001:https://digital.library.nuigalway.ie/islandora/object/nuigalway:2444
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Subject

describing--Letterdyfe--Roundstone--described--Bartleys--Letterdyfe--Flaggers--surrounded--flagger--bhFaoileann--gCorral--Letterdyfe--providing--information--Conneely--ODonnell--Moyrus Civil Parish Roundstone Roman Catholic Parish