School: Kildavin, Ferns
- Location:
- Cill Damháin, Co. Cheatharlach
- Teacher: Tadhg de Brí
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0911, Page 177
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- (continued from previous page)is called the Inch
- The Nook Field is four miles from a road. It is a small field with a piece of ground stretching out forming a corner. There is only one corner in the field the rest of the field is a kind of round, that is how it is called the Nook. A lane goes by it to the road.
- Informant
- Mr L. Kinsella
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 62
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- An Corrán Mór, Co. Cheatharlach
- The Loorough is a field about three or four miles from a road. It is called after a man named Loorough who was killed there. He was one of the yeomen. Many of the yeomen were killed in different places the places were called after them. That is how the Loorough got its name.
In this field there used(continues on next page)
