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James Kilcoyne auctioneers & valuers, Ballaghaderreen, had a very successful, well attended, public auction at O’Meara’s Bar & Restaurant, Portumna, last Friday, where the auction of farming lands near Portumna saw some of the lands go for close to €13,000 an acre.

Bog owners along the River Moy who were advised in Government notices published last week that they can no longer cut turf if their bog is located among the hundreds of townlands listed in the notice, may not all be subject to turf-cutting restrictions.

The next Westport Civic Trust talk will examine place-name history in the county, ranging from rare pre-Gaelic survivals to parish and townland names and to the more recent so-called minor names which survive especially in coastal Gaeltacht and island communities.

An application is currently being prepared to erect place names at each townland in the Swinford area.