School: Headfort
- Location:
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Miss J.E. Browne
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- On the farm of Joseph Browne, Aughaloughan, Ballyjamesduff, the following are the names of the Fields:-1) The field before the door (Field faces the back door of dwelling-house)
2) The black field
3) The Rock field (Rock in Field)
4) The Lime Kiln field. (Lime kiln in field long ago)
5) The Upper field
6) The far bottom
7) The low meadow
8) The Gawl-lah field (triangular-shaped field, the soil of which is heavy)
9) The Low Garden. (Had been a garden filled with fruit trees about 80 years ago, but because of the ravages of the local young boys during the fruit season, the bachelor owner, Mr. F. Mulligan, cut down the whole orchard.)
10) The Four-acre field (4 acres)
Mr John McGivena, Killaduff, Virginia, Barony Casterahan, has field on his farm locally called "the Gub". The field adjoins the Broad Road.