School: Mercy Convent, Granard (roll number 13846)
- Location:
- Granard, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Sr. Conception
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A Local Place Name
24th Jan; 1938 On our farm at home in the townland of Creevy, parish of Abbeylara, Co. Longford there is a field, which is called "Pairc na Muice Dhuibh, and that means the "Field of the Black Pig".
There is a valley in this field, and my father says, that a black pig once rooted up the ground in passing through this valley.
The following legend has(continues on next page)- Collector
- Rose Lynch
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Creevy, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Mr Thomas Lynch
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 47
- Address
- Creevy, Co. Longford