School: Dooroc, Drumlish (roll number 13438)
- Location:
- Dooroc, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Francis Kenny
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0760, Page 159
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- (continued from previous page)got its name because there is a bog beside it. The bush field got its name because there is a lone bush growing in the middle of it. The heather hill got its name because there is heather growing in it. The long meadow got its name because it is a very long field.
- The names of the fields on my farm are the big meadow, the well field, the kiln field,. The kiln field got its name because there is a kiln at the top of it.
No games were played in any of our fields. There are two trees at the foot of our hill and lights are seen there nearly every night. Mass was said on Cairn Hill. Cairn hill got its name because there is a cairn or a large heap of stones on the top of the hill. - Collector
- Rose Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Dooroc, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Mr Bernard Heaney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 66
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Dooroc, Co. Longford
