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School: Johnstown, Arklow

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Johnstown Lower, Co. Wicklow
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Nelly Bolger
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0923, Page 066

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    land and it is called Doran's Land".
    There is a jut of rock sticking over the road and it is believed that a butcher hung himself there and it is called the Butcher's rock.
    The first threshing engine ever seen in the district threshed in a field and it was afterwards called the "Engine field".
    Other fields are called by the following names. The "Flat Field", the "Fairy Field", the "Shared Field", The Cot Field, and Moores bog".
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Críostóir Ó h-Aodha
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Andrias Mach Domhnaill
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    85
    Address
    Killahurler Lower, Co. Wicklow