School: Scartaglen (roll number 8184)
- Location:
- Scartaglin, Co. Kerry
- Teachers: D. Ó Dubháin E. Ó Murchú
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0448, Page 057
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- The names of the fields in our farm are:-
The raymeadow because it was first a ray.
The stony field because it is very stony.
The three cornered field because it has three corners.
The glen field; it is called the glen field because there is a glen running at the end of it.
The rushy field because it is covered with rushes.
The small field; the big ray; the high field.
The coarse meadow because there is coarse hay in it.
Páirc Mháire because it belonged to a woman called Mary.
Football because long ago the people used to kick football there.
The sports field because sports were held there
The sheep laca, sheep used to be kept there
Páirc an uisge; the white field, the black meadow
Glens:- Gleann a bhfear nóg; tuirín gantó [?] glen. Gleann Doimhin in Dineen because it is very deep. Gleann Ganbh.
Heights
The forge heights because the forge is built there. The steeple, Drom; Comar; Mullach a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary O Connor
- Informant
- Edmond O Connor
