School: Inch, Borris

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   times people used to be buried in a corner of Kingfield near the cross of Skeough.

   

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2. Local Place Names

   

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   Long ago all the fields, streams and streams were named. There is a field in our farm named "Caith Mór's[?]field. The way it got its name was, long ago a woman named Katie owned it. The "Raheen Field" is also in our farm so called because there is a Rathin a field near it.

   There is a field owned by Joseph Doyle called the long field and there is another in the same farm called the "Gurt Mor". There is a field in our farm called the "Hurling field". The old people say it got its name because long ago that was the field where they used to hurle.

   There is a field in our farm and it is called "Sullivans hill". The way it got it's name was, long ago a man named Sullivan owned it. There is a river running through our farm called the "Auct-na Glár" river.

   There is a field owned by Larry Culleton called Thullán-na-Fraocán so called because

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Josie Fanning

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Ballyroughan Little, Co. Carlow

   Informant

   Mrs Fanning

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Ballyroughan Little, Co. Carlow