School: Carrickallen
- Location:
- Carrickallen, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: A. Lynch
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- There is a field in my fathers farm called the Limekiln.
It got this name because many years ago there was limestone burned in a Limekiln on the side of his hill.
On the north east of my fathers farm there is a hill called the clover hill.
There grows a lot of soft green grass and clover on this hill every year in the beginning of early spring.
There is another field of my father's farm opposite Mick Mc Guinness of Knockaggeart, Clifferna, Stradone, Co. Cavan called the "Bush Field".
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- Collector
- Mary A. Sexton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carricknashoke, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Bernard Sexton
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 54
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Carricknashoke, Co. Cavan
