School: Caroreigh (roll number 6700)
- Location:
- Carrowreagh, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Séamas Ó Cellaigh
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- (continued from previous page)of God on it ' is in the other, and let me off with a good Confession."
- Some fields have strange names such as North's walls. This field got its name because people named North's lived in it long ago.
Barron's Garden, Flood's Garden and George's Garden, Flood's Garden and George's Garden got their names, because people of that names lived in them long ago. The hollow got its name because it is really a hollow. It is in this place that Saint Garvan's well is. The cross-field got its name because it is at a cross.
The church park got its name because it is beside the graveyard. The bridge field got its name because it is near a bridge.
Some fields that it is not known how they got their names are the scarbuct, moon beg, bawn beg, big gort na scort, little gort na scort, gort na counach, rushy park, the big meadow and the old town.
The long field got its name because it is a long field. The rath field and the inside rath field got their(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mary O' Leary
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrowreagh, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- James O' Leary
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrowreagh, Co. Wexford
