School: Shinrone (B.)
- Location:
- Shinrone, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: William Mac Mahon
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0819, Page 048
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- XML “Local Place Names - The Bark Yard”
- XML “Local Place Names - Gort na mBan”
- XML “Local Place Names - Joness Field”
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- John Burniston
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cangort Demesne, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Mr W. Burniston
- Gender
- Male
- Gort na mban is a place in Cangort also. It is so called because when the Cangort Castle was built it is said that the women used the field as a sports field for themselves.
- Joness field is in Cangort. It has been called so since the Cangort Castle was built a few years. The field was so called because a man was shooting game on Atkinsons land.
Mr Atkinson told some of his men to capture him but when they went near the man he fired a shot and killed one of them. Then the soldiers seeing that they could not capture him shot him(continues on next page)
