School: Cnoc na Groighe (B.), Ráth Mhór (roll number 1685)
- Location:
- Knocknagree, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Muimhneacháin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0357, Page 290
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- (continued from previous page)played football
THE WHITE COIS is a field in which white rushes grow
PÁIRCH NA SAGART is a field where Mass was said in the penal times
- Fields in the farm of William Breen Knocknagree, Co. Cork. from John O'Connell (80) Collector Seán Ó'Croínín Scrahan.Paírc a'púca:- is so called because a ghost which took the form of a goat appeared when anyone entered the field after night-fall and it is said that it would run between their legs and throw them into a brake of briars.Ré na Rinnce:- is so called because a pattern was held in it.Páircna gCloc:- is so called because there are two stones in it which were thrown from the two paps by a giant.Páirc an Tobair:- is so called because there is a well in it.Páirc a' Cnuic: is so called because it is in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seán Ó Cróinín
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Scrahan, Co. Cork
- Informant
- John O' Connell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Scrahan, Co. Cork
