School: Garrowhill, Longford (roll number 10344)
- Location:
- Garrowhill, Co. Longford
- Teacher: P. Mac Aonghusa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0756, Page 455
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- All the fields around have funny names. The barn [?] field because of its bareness. The big field because of its size. The lawn because it is in front of the house. The fort field because there is a forth in it. The mare field because an a mare died in it. The Bann sidhes [banshee's?] chair it is suposed that when anyone in an Irish family name would die the Bann sighe used to cry after them. The little womans bush it is so called because there was a woman killed at it. There is a road called [ ] because it is said that there used to be a ligh seen on it every night The dead bridge because there was a gallows hand hanging out of it for hanging people long ago.
- Collector
- Frank Doris
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lismore, Co. Longford
