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Máirtín Ó Direáin - Fathach File / Reluctant Modernist

Formaoil

Item

Title

Formaoil

Description

Set of index cards describing some of the local features of Formaoil, [Formweel]. Included are descriptions of Abhainn Fhormaoil, Lough Carrickillawallia, Loch Doirín, the Zion Mór, Loch an Roisín (Lough Cloondola on the OS map), The Rack (a narrow place on the river between two lakes. The manager of the fishery had a sluice he would open to encourage salmon), Loch Fhormaoil, Holy Well, Formoyle Lodge, Loch an Chriathraigh, and Cnoc Fhormaoil. Mr. Walsh of Muireanach na Coille, Helen Spellman, and Matthew Costelloe of Formaoil are credited as being local sources of information.
Formaoil.

Format

14pp

Identifier

nuigalway:2743
ead-unitid: p120_1_7_15

Relation

Tim Robinson
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Subject

describing--Formaoil--Formweel--descriptions--Fhormaoil--Carrickillawallia--Cloondola--encourage--Fhormaoil--Chriathraigh--Fhormaoil--Muireanach--Spellman--Costelloe--information--Cill Chiumn Civil Parish Carraroe Killanin Kilcummin and Rosmuc Roman Catholic Parishes