School: Kildavin, Ferns
- Location:
- Kildavin, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: Tadhg de Brí
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0911, Page 189
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- (continued from previous page)Kidd's farm.
The building field is in a lonely place.
There are about five acres in the Building field and the ruins are there still. It is in Craanmore.
- The Solomon Field is so called because long ago there was a man called Solomon living in a house in the field and the people called it Solomon. It is about sixty years ago since he lived in it. It is in Craanmore.
- Collector
- Kitty Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballinvally, Co. Carlow
- Informant
- Mr Lyons
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Cranemore, Co. Carlow
- The Fack - Step is a field in the shape of a spade or fack. It is in the townland of Ballinavortha. It is in a lonely part of the country. It is not very near the road.
