School: Drumacruttan (roll number 10282)

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1. Local Place Names

   

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   There are a lot of fields on my father's farm at Leagh.
   These are the names of some of them, The well field is so called because there is a well in it. The bushfield is so called because there is a bush in it, and the urble hill and meadow because they are the only fields he has in the townland of urblekirk. The stripe field is so called because it is a long narrow field. The second field is so called because it is the second field to the house. The byre field is so called because it is the next field to the byre and the gravelhole field is so called because there is a gravelhole in it. The sandhole field is so called because there is a sandhole in it.
   The vetches hill is so called because it was cropped in vetches at one time. The clover hill

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Edwin Henderson

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Leagh, Co. Monaghan

   Informant

   Mr John Henderson

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   45

   Address

   Leagh, Co. Monaghan