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Máirtín Ó Direáin - Fathach File / Reluctant Modernist

Derreennagusfoor

Item

Title

Derreennagusfoor

Description

Set of index cards describing some of the local features of Derreennagusfoor, [Doire na gCos Fuar]. A note on the origin of the name. A local story has it that a herd hand went into the woods there, and was killed and eaten by a bull. All they found of him was his boots with the feet still in them. Brief descriptions are given of the sulphur mine, and the infant's burial ground. Paddy Folan of Scríb is credited as being a local source of information.
Derreennagusfoor.

Format

4pp

Identifier

nuigalway:2739
ead-unitid: p120_1_7_11

Relation

Tim Robinson
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Subject

describing--Derreennagusfoor--descriptions--information--Cill Chiumn Civil Parish Carraroe Killanin Kilcummin and Rosmuc Roman Catholic Parishes