School: Monaghan (Christian Bros.) (roll number 16723)

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1. How Certain Places Got Their Names - The Names of Fields (continued)

   

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   are called Beardie's Rocks because a Jew with a long beard lives in them.
   There is a field and a Bridge called Rockyford.

   

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2. Names of Fields

   

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   At Killivan there is a knowe. Down at Guns of Killivan there is a field called the long field because it is a long field. There is a field at my grannies and it is called the Kilnpot Field because there was a kiln in it. At my aunties in Drumhilla there is a big rock called the Giant's rock it is called so because there was supposed to be a giant buried there. At Killivan there is a Quarry field, it is called so because there is a quarry in it. My Grannie has a field called the Well field because there is a well in it. We have a field called the Money Land field because it was a man called Money who owned it.

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   Topics

   1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Eileen Barton

   Gender

   Female

3. Names of Fields

   

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   There is a place called The Flooded Hollow because it is always flooded. It is in County Monaghan

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