School: Killeevan (roll number 14150)
- Location:
- Killeevan Glebe, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Mrs Beggs
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0950, Page 327
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- Mr Crawford has a field called the Point because it goes into a point.
Mr Knight at Annalore has a field called the Decoy, becasue part of it is swampy and long ago people used to set Decoy ducks there to attract other wild ducks to shoot.
Mr Knight also owns fields called Wards bottoms because a man named Ward owned them.
Mr John Noble owns a hill called Mc Ginity's Hill because a man Mc Ginity owned it.
Mrs Agnews farm in Killycoonaghis called the Burrow Farm because it has so many rabbit burrows in it. There is a field called the Gibbet Hill in Rawdeenpark. In olden times people used to hang any murderer on a big wooded stick, and leave them for days to let the count see them. The person who owns it now is Mr Cassell Mac Adoo.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Muriel Sirr
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Killygone, Co. Monaghan
