1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Carrickallen

School: Carrickallen

Location:
Carrickallen, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
A. Lynch
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1022, Page 209

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1022, Page 209

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Carrickallen
  2. XML Page 209
  3. XML “My Father's Farm”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. My Father's Farm (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    is his grandchild.
    This girl is about seventy four years of age, and she is receiving "The Old Age Pension"
    Another field on my father's farm, is known as the "Limekiln Field" and it is on the western side of the farm.
    This field got its because there was a limekiln on it some time ago.
    The limekiln has been turned into a pig-sty.
    The "planting Rock" is a name on another field on my father's farm.
    It is known by this name because it is beside a plantation of trees.
    Another field on my father's farm is known as "Neds Hill".
    It is known by this name formly, because their lived a man named Ned, on the hill whoes sirname I do not know.
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maura Brady
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tullyunshin, Co. Cavan