School: Garr
- Location:
- Garr, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Cáit de Léis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0801, Page 236
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Local Place Names
The names for the local fields are Troys craft. it is called that because people of the name of Troys lived in it long ago. The "Path field" is so called because there were paths going through it leading from one house to another. "Paidins craft" is so called because an old man named Paidin Groome lived-in it. The "Moat Hill" because there is a moat. There is a sandpit in the field and when this was being opened about ten years ago there were skeletons of a man and a boy found in it. There is a field called the "Raheen" it got its name from a lone bush that is growing there. There is a stream called 'Bunny's drain' and there is a bridge over it called 'Bunny's bridge'. It got its name because there was an old girl living beside it called Kate Bunny. There are rocks in an old drain in a field called Leunaguibla.
There is an old house(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maureen Nolan
- Gender
- Female
