School: Muckalee, Kilkenny (roll number 3832)

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1. Local Place Names

   

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   Local Place Names.

   I live in the townsland and parish of Muckalee. Muckalee is situated in the barony of Fassidina in the Co Kilkenny.
   Muckalee is so called because the people long ago reared a great deal of pigs and Muckalee is so called grey pigs.
   The names of the fields are "the Coach field" "Rake field" "Gullet" "Black gates" "Cow leens" so called because that field is always covered with a yellow mass of cowslips "Moonwheal" is so called because every year that that meadow is mown the next day is always wet. "Paddock" "Well field" is so called because there is a big well in the middle of it. "Forge Field" so called because long ago there was an old forge outside the gate of that field The Upper and lower curroch "Hill field because there is a steep hill in that field. "Kiln field because there is a lime kiln in it. "Mossie field" because there are all mossy banks in that field. Quarry fil field so called because there is a quarry in it.
   Streams:- Maher's Yellow lock, Burns muniain.
   Hills:- The Round hill at Cassey's Brownes hill at Flemings so called because the Brownes lived in that cottage before Flemings.

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   Topics

   1. áit-spás-timpeallacht
      1. seanchas áitiúil, dinnseanchas (~10,595)

   Language

   English

   Location

   Maigh Coillí, Co. Chill Chainnigh

   Collector

   Yvonne Conway

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Maigh Coillí, Co. Chill Chainnigh

   Informant

   James Conway

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Maigh Coillí, Co. Chill Chainnigh

   Informant

   Thomas Coonan

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   60

   Occupation

   Farmer

   Address

   Maigh Coillí, Co. Chill Chainnigh