School: Errigal Trough (roll number 15565)
- Location:
- Emyvale, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Saragh Gillanders
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- Names of fields in this locality, for instance:-
"Cool-Calm" which means a long crooked field.
"The wild cat's nest" was so called because there was a fort in it, and the wild cats used to live there.
Another field is known as "Gort Glas"
which means a green field
A field in the townland of Fort-Singleton is known as ~"the mare's field" because an old mare died in it.
A field in the farm of George Woods, Killyleck is called "The Bottom", because it is situated at the bottom of a hill.
Another field is "The Kill field", because there was once a lime-kiln there.
"Simpson's field" was so called because it belonged to man named Thomas Simpson- Collector
- Charles Woods
- Gender
- Male