School: Gort na mBó (roll number 14418)
- Location:
- Bofield, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Laoghaire
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- (continued from previous page)or two in it long ago.
Talamh Ceallaigh belonged to a man named Kelly. Teach na Bracha is called that name because there is a sort of a house in it. In that little hut people used to make malt. The little house is built under another field that is a little bit higher that the field that it is in. Cnoc an Dúinín is a big hill that used to grow beautiful flowers one time but not now. No flowers grow on it now except what you would see any other where. We have two other fields called Caithín and Spínteán. I do not know the meaning of those fields. I do not know the meaning of Cluain na Gor either.
Our village is commonly called Bofield, but(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Flannelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bofield, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Bridget Flannelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bofield, Co. Mayo
