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Máirtín Ó Direáin - Fathach File / Reluctant Modernist

Munga

Item

Title

Munga

Description

Set of index cards describing some of the local features of the townland of Munga, [Na Monga]. Some notes about the Geraghty family taken from the Land Commission Record, and Griffith's Valuation. Included are descriptions of Munga Lodge, once the property of the Frewins, who were related through marriage to Churchill, and were driven out by the IRA in 1921 according to Mike Gibbons. A note on Colonel Frewin, and the IRA letter. Also included are descriptions of Derrychorraun River, Tulach, Diarmuid, Joyce's Garden, Fr. Miley's Rock, Cró Chait, Mearing Lake, Councillor (a small lake, the name is used by fishermen), and Loch Roisín na Mionnán. Rory Lavelle, Mikey Fitz, John Joyce, Ritchie Savage, and the Connery brothers of Beaghcauneen are credited with providing some of the local information.
Munga.

Format

14pp

Identifier

nuigalway:2662
ead-unitid: p120_1_5_33

Relation

Tim Robinson
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Subject

describing--Commission--Griffiths--Valuation--descriptions--Churchill--according--descriptions--Derrychorraun--Diarmuid--Councillor--fishermen--Beaghcauneen--providing--information--Ballindoon Civil Parish Clifden Roman Catholic Parish