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Máirtín Ó Direáin - Fathach File / Reluctant Modernist

Dún Riacháin

Item

Title

Dún Riacháin

Description

Set of index cards describing some of the local features of Dún Riacháin [Doonreaghan], a Gaeltacht area. The features described include Cora Hara, Doon House (originally the home of the Hazell family), Aill an Eibhinn, the Cashel Training Centre, Log an Iarainn, Caladh Mharcuis, and Fox Island. Tom Conneely was a local source who provided some of the information relating to this townland. Tom McDonagh of Tamhnach Bán told a story of a fox and a limpet in connection with the naming of Fox Island.
Dún Riacháin.

Format

9pp

Identifier

nuigalway:2430
ead-unitid: p120_1_1_28

Relation

Tim Robinson
full:001:https://digital.library.nuigalway.ie/islandora/object/nuigalway:2430
thumb:001:https://digital.library.nuigalway.ie/islandora/object/nuigalway:2430/datastream/TN/view

Subject

describing--Doonreaghan--Gaeltacht--described--originally--Mharcuis--information--townland--connection--Moyrus Civil Parish Roundstone Roman Catholic Parish