School: Cloghogue (roll number 15574)

Location:
Cloghoge Upper, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Ml. Mac Lochlainn
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  1. I have a farm at home and there are a number of names on the fields. "The big field", "The round hill", "The pony's field", "The point of Brickeen", "Mail na shí óg", "The carrigeen meadow", "The far fort", "The clover field", "The lake meadow", "Hunt's garden", "Terrie's hill", "The green bog" and "The bottoms".
    There are three ruins of houses on my farm, "Hunt's house", "Terry Ballantine's house", and "Dominic's house". Terry went away to France, Dominic also went away and Mr Hunt also went away. The "big field" gets its name because it is the largest field we have. The "pony's field" got that name, because the pony was always kept in that field. The "point of Brickeen" is so called, because there is a point of it going out into the lake.
    "Mul na shí óg" got that name for there is a hill and a fort on the top of it. The "carrigeen meadow" got that name from the number of carrigeens, that are in it. The "far fort" got its name because it is the farthest field from the house, and there is a fort in it. The "clover field" is so called be-
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    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bartley Ballantine
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Brickeen, Co. Sligo