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School: Athboy

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Athboy, Co. Meath
Teachers:
Pilib Ó Néill Tomás Ó Domhnalláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0696, Page 235

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  1. Names of Fields

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    Scala Park - (Wooded field of Cogills(?))
    Carddís - big gravelly field on River Bank - Newmans
    The Crottee(?) - next to field of Thlacas(?) Nount - Major Parr (?)

    Glen na Sagart
    hollowed field with stone in Martinstown - rock on which was Mass in Penal Days

    The Bull-bait Hollow
    hollowed field also in M O'Connell(?) Martinstown in which were bull fights

    The Deer Park
    outside Plunketts castle and abbey of Rathmore - Mounds

    Lime-Kiln
    Martinstown. Cassell's man was burned in Kiln

    Bailanaer
    Newmans Tullaghanoge probably means grassy field

    The Commons
    P. Sheridan, Martinstown - Rushy land

    The Fiddlers Bush
    Deyos(?), Gillstown field with height on which there is a bush and large stone

    The Stalks
    Mrs Douglas, Ballyfallon

    (1) The Well Field
    Tom Moore, Danescourt - St James Well
    (2) The Well Field
    Halley's, Hill of Ward
    (3) The Well Field
    Mrs Murtagh's, Castletown - Bridgets Well - Walsh, 88 acres
    (4) The Well Field
    P. Carey, Martinstown
    Seoin Cam(?)
    J. Ledwith, Otterstown (?)

    The Bleach Field - always rains when hay is in it (?)

    The Stong - Higgins Kilkgelan(?) - big hill on field with stone on top
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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