School: Creach na mBearna
- Location:
- Greaghnafarna, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tomás Breathnach
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0230, Page 126
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Creach na mBearna
- XML Page 126
- XML “The Fields”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- 126
The Fields
Why are the fields of this lovely valley of Arigna so small
Long before anything was known about wire fencing the farmers who only put in small crops. protected them from the depredations of cattle by raising a fence or ditch around the cropped part. When the crops were taken out the fences remained and so in the course of years the farms were cut up into the smalls fields that are here now.
Two brothers named Gilhooly who lived in the downland of Greagh. Arigna cropped a portion of a fort field. When the crop was in they started to rise a ditch across the field to protect the crop. when they had part of the fence made they came upon a wooden or boarded floor. They stopped making the fence and not only(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Leo Layden
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derrinisky, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Stephan Mc Poland
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Greaghnafarna, Co. Roscommon
