School: Inis Mac ón Tír (roll number 12854)
- Location:
- Inis Mhic an Trír, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Muireann Bean Uí Chuinneagáin
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- There are several fields in my father's farm which have special names. The name of one of the fields is GORTMÓRso called because it is a very big field containing seven acres
GORTNAGREASAIHEthe field of the shoemaker, so called because every night the little shoemaker sits there to mend his shoes. This field contains two acres.
GORTNA - PÓLEor Póles field so called, because long ago a man named Póle lived in a little house in that field. It contains two acres and a half.
GORTNA - AITNEor the field of the furze, so called because there is a lot of furze in it
CROCÁNN NA gCEARCor the hill of the hens, so called because there is a big wood there, and the fox has his den there, and all the hens he can get he brings them there and eats them in his den. This field contains two acres.
SEANKILLso called because long ago there was a church in that field. It contains about one acre
