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School: Poll an Chapaill, Mullinahone (roll number 14181)

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Poulacapple West, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Seán Ó h-Icidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0560, Page 168

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    GARRA FIONUISGE
    was so called because there was a well in it.

    PAIRC NA CROICHE
    was so called because two men were hanged there

    THE POLLOCKS
    were called because the were marshy.

    TOBINS
    was so called because Tobins owned it.

    GRANTS
    owned that half acre

    SOLDIERS BUSH
    is called by that name because a soldier was shot there.

    THE ROILIG
    is so called because Tobins or Killachy had a graveyard there. The head of one tombstone is to be seen to the present day.

    THE YELLOW PIT
    because yellow clay used to be got there for mortar

    THE INCH
    is a long narrow field

    Patrick Burke
    Kylefrehane
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Location
    Poulacapple West, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Patrick Burke
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kylefreaghane, Co. Tipperary