School: Ballyvongane (Measctha)
- Location:
- Ballyvongane, Co. Cork
- Teacher: D. Ó Céilleachair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0343, Page 028
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- (continued from previous page)name from a heap of stones in the middle of the field.
Páirch an Tobar - gets its name from a spring-well which is in the field.
The Bawn Fada - is a long narrow meadow.
Páirchín na Móna - gets its name from a rick of turf, which is stored there each year.
Páirch na Sgeithe - derived its name from a hedge of hawthorn which surrounds it.
Carraig an Aifrinn - is a rock on which Mass was celebrated in the Penal times,. It is in the middle of a large rock, and can still be seen.
Poll na Carraige - a big deep hole in the Glashagorrive river, is so called because of a big rock in it.
Poll na Lachann - another hole in the Glashagorrive river, is so called because ducks used to swim in it.
- Collector
- Mary Lynch
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyvongane, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Daniel Lynch
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Ballyvongane, Co. Cork
