School: Cromadh (B.)
- Location:
- Croom, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0506, Page 346
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- (continued from previous page)robbed at Clochán Dubh on their return. Where the road climbs over Tulach Finn, there is now but one house in which lives a family named Fitzgearld - nickname FAOILTEACH. In the immediate vicintiy of this house lived a great number of families at one time. They have left some indications of their existence after them, for the small fields on the hill-sides still carry the names of their sometime owners e.g. MAHER'S, SLATTERYS'S, SWEENEY'S, HOWARDEEN'S, ENRIGHT'S and one other: SALLY'S GARDEN
THE "MÓINÉIRÍN" is a small meadow in the townland of Booallyvoord (another "plowland of Mainistir-an-Aonaigh) in the parish of Fedamore.
"MÓINFHÉAR-a- HILLE" = (Móinfhéar na hAidle") D.O.C. a field in the townland of Killeenoughty, parish of Manister. It is a rather longish field with "an elbow at the Cealltar end" of it. THis was the description of it, as given by Micahel Haran, Ballyluskym Mainister. It is north-east of Cealltar (see section 53) but within a stone's throw of it.
"THE SEAN-CHEARDCHA" is applied to the corner of Mr Condron's house field (in Dullas West, Croom) as bounded by the Croom-Ballingarry road and "Power Hickey's farm. I have not been able to learn the story of the ceardcha.
"THE FAITHCHÍN" is another field in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Daithí Ó Ceanntabhail
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
