School: An Clochar, Baile Caisleáin Bhéara (roll number 13762)

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1. Local Place Names (continued)

   

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   "Names of Fields"
   Páirc Caol:- This is a long narrow field.
   Páirc an Aitinn:- The field of the furze.
   Páircín Bháin:- There is an amount of white heather growing in this field.
   The Coinnleach:- The stubble field.
   "Gort":- The field of the crops.
   "Tualaig":- A hillock
   "Tobair":- The field of the well.
   Ladhar:- A tongue of land.

   

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2. Local Place Names

   

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   Rossmacowen:- A district situated south of Hungary Hill. It got its name from a fort in which a man named Eoghain lived.
   Bohernua:- a townland in Rossmacowen east; it is so called because the new road from Bantry to Castletownbere passes through it.
   Sheila's Field:- in our townland there is a field which is called Sheila's Field. Long ago, an old woman known as Sheila Sullivan lived in a house in the farm. She knew no English and when she died, the people called the field by the name of "Sheila". At the end of the field is a height which is called "Sheila's Height" and it is now grown over with briars and furze.
   Daireen Díarmuida:- In the boundary between Adrigole and

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Anna Lowney

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Scart, Co. Cork