School: Drumatemple (C.) (roll number 7055)
- Location:
- Drumatemple, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Treasa, Bean Uí Chuinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0260, Page 235
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“Names of fields on my father's farm...”
(continued from previous page)'Tobar-na-cric-Leitn' is in Cornamuckla. People say a man and two horses and a plough were drowned in this well. It is a spring well. People use the water for their own use.
I got these names from my father Mr Patrick Conboy.
Margaret Conboy, Cornamuckla, Ballymoe, Co Galway
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“On our land are to be found the following...”
On our land are to be found the following. The far field, the middle field, the meadowing, the far bog.
The following are to be found on Miss Madden's land.
The big tree field which is so called because there is a big tree growing there. There was a road running under that tree long ago. The people used to rest under that tree and many died there in the time of the famine.
The Pound field got that name because when the cattle were seized on the people long ago they were kept there(continues on next page) - Collector
- Patricia Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gilkagh East, Co. Galway