School: Baile Chíorbhaic, Domhnach Mór (roll number 1691)

Location:
Ballykerwick, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Seán Ó Cathasaigh
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    "The high field", because it is high ground.
    "The three corner field", because there are three corners in it.
    "The Cottage field", because there was a cottage built on it.
    "The Cnoc Mór," is a very big field.
    "Pairceen Andy", because it was owned by a man named Andrew O Connell.
    "The half - acre", because it is a small field.
    "The coarse meadow", because there is coarse grass there.
    "The inch", because there is a stream running through it.
    "The big field", because there is three acres in it.
    "The clover field", because clover always grows in it.
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    There is a small well in one field and it is always called "The Tobareen".
    One part of the road to Barrachauring is called "Droiceadín", because there is a gully under the road there.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Collector
    Nora O Leary
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kilmartin Lower, Co. Cork