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   Local Place-Names

   The 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.

   

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   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.

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   Topics

   1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Martin Breen

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ballydonigan, Co. Wexford