School: Cnoc na gCóirne
- Location:
- Knocknagornagh, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Seán Ó Coinnigh
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- Fields:- The following purely Irish names on fields survive and were supplied to me as follows:-Patk. Collins
An Páircín
- An Baróideac agus An Sasanach - two fields the property of Roger Sheehy Temple Athea - Patk. Dalton
- Informant
- Patrick Dalton
- Gender
- Male
- Móinfheár na h-Abhann / An Cluain (Cornelius Barry, Knocknagorna) - Maureen Callaghan
- Cúl-Fhionnáin (Patk Dalton, Knocknagorna) Patk Dalton
- Sáilíní na n-Uiscí (Jas. Liston, Knocknagorna) Bridget Liston
- The "rocket" field has a curious history: a little girl wearing a new frock (Gaedilg - Racait) was espied by a priest passing by and the field has since been called the "Rocket" (Racait = gúna)
- Two fields, the property of Patk. Kiely, Temple Athea, are called respectively, "the stocking" and "the handkerchief" - Peggy Kiely
- Díth-Gheata:- a name of a field, the property of John Dalton, Knocknagorna probably "the gateless field" - there is no gate at present at any rate
