School: Cluain Meacan (roll number 11451)
- Location:
- Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Liam Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0407, Page 078
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“There is a field in Dromin in the land Edward Brown.”
There is a field in Dromin in the land Edward Brown. It is called Bonks field because a man named Bonk lived in that place. He had a servant boy working with him. One day the servant boy was working out in the field and when he came to his dinner he did not see his master at all. So he went into the room and he saw Bonk dead on the floor. The man had throat out and he was not rightly dead at all. Then the boy ran for the priest and he was anointed. That is why it is called Bonks field. There is another field called the church field it is so called because it was a church yard long ago. When the land was dug lots of skulls and bones were found in the land. That is why it is called the church field.
- Informant
- John Twomey
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 43
- Address
- Dromin, Co. Kerry