School: Drumgossatt (C.)
- Location:
- Drumgoosat, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Áine Nic Ghráinne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0930, Page 039
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- (continued from previous page)Park na Wackie which means the field of the beggars. It is so called because long ago when the country was poor, a number of beggars dwelled in it.
Bill na Mhacha, means the race of the fairies.
Splinnc - Splink a level field which is situated on a rock. It is surrounded by a ditch of bushes.
Mullach - A very hilly field and is higher than the other fields around it.
Gliac - A field with a hollow in it. It is always wet in summer and winter, and in one corner are stones of an old house which was built there long ago.
Cabháin - A level square field like a valley.
An Poll Mór - It is called Poll Mór(continues on next page)
