School: Boulavogue
- Location:
- Boleyvogue, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Énrí Tréinfhear
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0890, Page 175
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- 175Local Place-NamesThe names of some fields on our farm are :-
The Common's field, ten-acre field, the pocket-field, Byrne's bog, the sand-pit field, the big moor, the little moor, and the car-house field.
The Common's field is so called because it was one time an old commons.
The ten-acre is so called because there are ten-acres in it.
The pocket-field is so called because there was a ditch pailing off one corner of it in the shape of a pocket.Norah Breen,
Ballycarrigeen,
Ferns,
Co. Wexford.
- Collector
- Norah Breen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballycarrigeen Lower, Co. Wexford
- The dead man's field, Mullet's lawn, the round field, the grove field, the hill field, the sheep-pen field.
The dead man's field was so called because there was a man buried in it.
Mullet's lawn was so called because a man named Mullet lived there.Martin Breen,
Ballydonegan,
Ferns,
Co. Wexford.
