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School: Coillíní Carrowkelly (roll number 7054)

Location:
Culleens, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
M. Ó Brádaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0146, Page 111

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    In our farm at home there is a field called Gaur na hátha. It is a little hill and there are a lot of stones on it and it is situated beside the bulleens road.
    We have another field called Store Garden. Store Garden is so called because there was in olden times (at) a store for buying oats in it and the stones are still there. On the south side of our house there is a field called the Fort field. It is situated beside a stream and is a grazing field. We call part of another field the Srait because it is soft and marshy.
    As you go up straight from our house there is a field belonging to Mr Healy called Clú Man
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)
    Language
    English
    Location
    Culleens, Co. Mayo
    Collector
    Margaret Walshe
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Culleens, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mr Walshe
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Culleens, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mrs Walshe
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    50
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Culleens, Co. Mayo