Title
An Ros Rua
Description
Set of index cards describing some of the features of An Ros Rua [Rosroe]. Robinson quotes local sources in summarising the history of the village in the 19th century, once quite a busy harbour, but declining as a village early into the Famine. Features described include the Rosroe Boat Harbour, a marsh North-West of Rosroe Lough called Muing Sanders, Cnocán Rí, Tamhnach Mór, The Lily Lake, Rosroe Bay, Bun a Trinse, Caladh Bháid Mhóir, Cora an Trá, The Poorhouse, Sruthair na Míoltóg, Cora an tSalainn, Loch Stiofáin Uí Mhongáin, Cora Phádraig, Cora Raithní, Loch Barr an Bhaile (where Marconi experimented with kites), and Locháin an Dubhaigh (The Mud Holes). Credited with providing information are Tom and Peter Conneely, Joe Joyce, Tom Conneely, and Joe Joyce.
An Ros Rua.
Format
18pp