1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Dún Bhéacháin (Dunbeacon)

School: Dún Bhéacháin (Dunbeacon) (roll number 15552)

Location:
Dunbeacon, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Tomás Ó Foghlú
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0289, Page 197

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0289, Page 197

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Dún Bhéacháin (Dunbeacon)
  2. XML Page 197
  3. XML “Local Place Names”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Local Place Names (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    The Cabhlac Field is about a hundred yards from my house. It is so called from a cabhlac there where a family of Coughlans lived.
    Páirc Éarlais is a field about one hundred yards from my house.
    The Slate House Field named from the slate house there where my grandfather lived. It is about one hundred yards from my house.
    Rínn. In the north west of Drishane there are about ten fields called "Rínns" from their position over the cliffs of Rínn.
    Páircín Andí is a small field about a quarter of a mile from my house. It was so named from a former possessor Andy.
    Póicín is a very small field about one hundred and fifty yards from my house.
    Graifín is a small field about ninety yards from my house.
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Josephina Moynihan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Drishane, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Richard Moynihan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    58
    Address
    Drishane, Co. Cork