School: Rahugh (roll number 12905)

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1. Local Place Names (continued)

   

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   now. When he had made the lake he called it the "Swallow"

   

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2. Local Place Names

   

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   There is a field on our farm called the Vetch Field. It is so called because vetches used to be grown there for horses. There is another field called Christy's Horse-park. It is so called because a man named named Christy Fury grazed a horse in it.
   There is a hill in Mountrath called Shary's well. It is so called because a foal called Searach used to drink from it. There is a well in a field of Brazil's but nobody knows how it got its name. There is a double ditch in Mountrath called the Reilig pass. Nobody knows how it got its name.

   

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Matthew Dunne

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ráth Aodha, Co. na hIarmhí

   Informant

   Patrick Dunne

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ráth Aodha, Co. na hIarmhí