School: Tullaroan (C.) (roll number 3530)

Location:
Tullaroan, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Cáit, Bean Uí Eidhin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0867, Page 171

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  1. There is a field called Scroughs field because it is full of bushes.
    There is a boggy field called the Grauns which is never tilled.
    There is another field called the Gloun, because it is in a valley.
    The Islands is the name of a field, because there is water running through it.
    At Ballinamarra Cross there is a field called the forge Field because there was a forge there one time.
    There is another field at Ballinamarra called Croke's because Croke's lived there at one time.
    All these fields are in the townland of Gaulstown in the parish of Tullaroan and in the barony of Crannagh.
    There is a field in Rathielty called the Shann because it is old. It is in the parish of Freshford and in the barony of Crannagh.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)
    Language
    English
    Location
    Gaulstown Upper, Co. Kilkenny
    Collector
    Mary Hogan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Gaulstown Upper, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    Philip Hogan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    53
    Address
    Gaulstown Upper, Co. Kilkenny