School: Baile Dubh (2), (B.)
- Location:
- Ballyduff, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Seán Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0634, Page 354
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- The names of fields in my farm are Pairc an Aifrinn. It is called pairc an aifrinn because mass was said there in the Penal Times. Pairc Jackson is a name of a field because there was a landlord named Jackson living there, There is a field named Carroll's field. It is so called because there was a man named Carroll living there.
There is a stream
running down by Ballyduff and it is called the Ballyduff stream. There is a hollow in our farm and it is called Carroll's hollow because there was a man named Carroll living there in a house. The house was rooted and there is a great hollow there now. The is a blackthorn bush about three miles from Ballyduff. There was a priest killed there just near it and it never grew a thorn since.
- Collector
- Richard Tobin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyduff, Co. Waterford
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- Mr Richard Tobin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyduff, Co. Waterford
