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   'Tobar-na-cric-Leitn' is in Cornamuckla. People say a man and two horses and a plough were drowned in this well. It is a spring well. People use the water for their own use.
   I got these names from my father Mr Patrick Conboy.
   Margaret Conboy, Cornamuckla, Ballymoe, Co Galway

   

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   “On our land are to be found the following...”

   

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   On our land are to be found the following. The far field, the middle field, the meadowing, the far bog. The following are to be found on Miss Madden's land. The big tree field which is so called because there is a big tree growing there. There was a road running under that tree long ago. The people used to rest under that tree and many died there in the time of the famine. The Pound field got that name because when the cattle were seized on the people long ago they were kept there

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Patricia Walsh

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Gilkagh East, Co. Galway