School: Clais, Athea (roll number 15100)
- Location:
- Keale, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Liam Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0485, Page 132
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- Kits field is so called because a woman by the name of Kit Gleason lived there. A meadow is called Micheals meadow because a man named Michael Kelly lived there. Gairdin Glass is so named because it is a very green garden. It is called Pairc Ruad because there is red ground in that field. There is a glen in our farm called Gleann Dearg because it looks red. The Branner is a long narrow field with a road running near it. It is called the wood rae because it is the next field to the wood. It is called Pairc Ana because a girl by the name of Ana owned it and she was blown away in a whirl wind.
Streams - A stream called the glassa runs through our farm it is supposed that the fairies used to wash their clothes there in olden times.
Hallows - Three or four families by the name of Rooneys lived in gleann na Ruin as it was on a hallow place and a flood broke in there and they were all drowned and they called it after them.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peggie Dalton
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- James Dalton
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Cool East, Co. Limerick
