School: Dillonsbridge (roll number 8501)
- Location:
- Philpotstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: A.B. Ní Chumhaill
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- A little farm (four acres) belonging to Joseph Donnelly Odder, Tara is called "the Faudeen" (?) Willie Doyle, Collierstown, Tara owns a field called the "Raheen". There is a Rath at the top of it. The field round Skryne Castle Tara is called the moat-field. In the corner of it is fort or moat.The "Rappogs" also belongs to A.B. Wilkinson of Skryne Castle. The "Connaberry" is another field on the same farm. Others are the Chapel field, in which an old chapel was supposed to have been and the upper and lower Church.
"The valley of the Black Pig" runs from Collierstown bog through Lismullen to the Boyne. A height called "Rath Maeve" is in Belper Tara.