School: An Ghráinseach, Mainistir Fhearmuighe (roll number 12700)
- Location:
- Grange West, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Díomsaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0377, Page 163
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)
- XML School: An Ghráinseach, Mainistir Fhearmuighe
- XML Page 163
- XML (no title)
- XML (no title)
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
(no title) (continued)
“In our farm Grange, Fermoy, Co Cork we have a field called the railway field.”
(continued from previous page)lios in it. There is a field called the hollow- field in our land. It is so called because there is a hollow in the middle. Another field is called the paddock. It is so called because it is small.
(no title)
“Our farm is situated in the townland of Acres.”
Our farm is situated in the townland of Acres. It is in the parish of Fermoy and in the barony of Condon and Clangibbon.
The names of our fields are, the caipín, the low-caipín', the haggard field, the lodge, the middle field, Ahern field, the Kiln field, the cottage field, the long field, and the short field.
The caipín got its name because it is shaped like a cap. One end of it is high and the other end is low and level. The low caipín got its name because it is near the caipín(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nora Joyce
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Acres, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr Patrick Joyce
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 51
- Address
- Acres, Co. Cork