School: Dún Bhéacháin (Dunbeacon) (roll number 15552)
- Location:
- Dunbeacon, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Foghlú
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0289, Page 188
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- Names of fields in ShountelligThe long Waistcoat
which is about two hundred yards from my house, so called because it is a long field in the form of the side of a waistcoat.
………………………….. The Black Field
is a field which is full of blocks of fir and wood about a hundred and fifty yards from my house.
………………………….. The Football Field
is a field where the young men used to play football on Sunday evenings about fifty years ago. It is about fifty yards from my house.
………………………….. Mick Harrington's Field
which is about sixty yards from my house. It is said that a weaver named Mick Harrington who had no field of his own planted potatoes in that field about eighty years ago.
………………………….. Thedy Sweeny's Field
which is about thirty yards from my house us called because a poor man planted potatoes in that field whose name was Thedy Sweeny.
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- Collector
- Mary O' Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Shantullig North, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr John Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 59
- Address
- Shantullig North, Co. Cork
