School: Caiseal (roll number 16085)
- Location:
- Cashel, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádraig Mac Mághnuis
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- The name of my village is Corrfiadhan. It is so called because the land is mountainy and bad. The smaller townland I live in is Castlecrunnoge. This means the village of the rocks, becuase there are a number of large stones at the back of the village.
There are eight field in our farm, five cultivated fields, and three potatoes fields , and three pasture fields. The names of our fields are as follows :- Garraí Ban, Garraí Lín, Cúlán na bpreacán Cúl a garraí, Cnocán buidhe, Cúl a cnúic, Ring a h-issán, Garraí na bhfód.
I asked my grandmother the meanings of the names of the fields and when they got those names. She does not remember or never heard anybody saying when those names were first given to them. She told me that the meanings of Garraí bán is the uncultivated(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Paddy Mc Donnell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Curryaun, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mary Mc Donnell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Curryaun, Co. Mayo
