School: Caherconlish (roll number 16232)
- Location:
- Caherconlish, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Mrs. A. Fitzgibbon
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0522, Page 182
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- The "Four Acres" is the name of a field in Thomas Quirke's farm at Knockroe. The field is so called because it is four acres large.
The Terrace is a little height of stones overlooking a little pool of water in John Hogan's farm at Knockroe. The Glen is a field belonging to Christy Heffernan. It is between Newtown hill and Boskill hill.
There is a field in David Hennessy's in Killona called the "Oaten Meadow". It is so called because there were oats set there once. In the same farm there is a field called "The Closh" because it is loamy land near a bog. There are many placenames around Caherconlish Co.Limerick.
Caherconlish means the city at the head of the fort. That is because there is a fort called Knocán beco (?) about half a mile away from it. Bothar na gCloch, which means the road of the stones, is about a mile from Caherconlish.
Bothar Rí Liam is a disused road running along the west of Caherconlish. "Bothar Rí Liaim" means King William's road, because King William used it when bringing artillery to the siege of Limerick.
There is a place about a mile from Caherconlish called Knockeen. That means the little hill, because there is a little hill(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mrs Hayes
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Caherconlish, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- D. Guerin
- Occupation
- Labourer
- Address
- Newtown, Co. Limerick
