School: Tomhaggard

Location:
Tomhaggard, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
Séamus Ó Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0877, Page 243

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  1. The Church Field is on the Cotts farm near Tacumshane, and is so called because of a small space in one corner where some great men are buried. The graves are marked by rough, large, flat stones. there are about three or four graves.
    The Rock Field is belonging to Mr John Stafford, Ballyboker, and is so called because of a large rock or stone standing in the centre of the field. There is supposed to be the impressions of a horse's hoof and a giant's head on the stone.
    The Rath Field, belonging to Mr Pat Rossiter, Linziestown, and there is also a field belonging to Mr Gibbon, Linziestown, that a priest crossed, pursued by soldiers, and, at the places he crossed, on the ditches, no trees or bushes ever grew. He was on his way to say Mass in some lonely place, and was seen and pursued and shot. His blood is on the grass yet.
    There is another Church Field with a church path in it. Coming by the old grave yard in Shaughmon, this path comes from Ballybough direction, by the church, and ends somewhere in Ballymore.
    The Kiln field is just at Linziestown Cross, and in this field, there is the ruins of an old lime kiln or brick kiln.
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    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Lilly Dempsey
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballyboher, Co. Wexford
    Informant
    Mr James Dempsey
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    84
    Address
    Ballyboher, Co. Wexford