My father farm consists of about twenty fields, each having a name.
Most of the names have no historic value whatever - the Calves Field, the Three-Cornered Field, the Paddock, the Small Field, the Coarse Meadows, etc. - each getting its name from the shape, size or use to which it is put.
"The Shaeihín" (as it is pronounced) is a very common name on fields in this locality - obviously connected with the Irish 'sruthán' which passes near or through them.
Jim's Field derives its name from one Jim McDermott who owned it at some period.
The Alth Field is so called because of an Alth or cliff which is at