School: Bláithín Íosa, Lappin (?)
- Location:
- Lappanbane, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: -
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1023, Page 164
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- (continued from previous page)was being made in the country there was a great deal of money earned from the making and selling of poteen in that field.The '' Rushy Field '' is so called because of the large amount of rushes grow-ing in it.Another field is called the '' Point '' .
There was an old hedge school situated in that field. hundreds of years ago and was a labourer's house at the head of it also but there are only the ruins of them to be seen there today. It is a three cornered field and the two ditches at the end of the field go up in the form of a point and so it got the
name '' Point ''Long ago when the landords were in Ireland stone ditches were rare and each person who had cows would generally keep a herd to mind their flocks.There is a field in our townland and it was the only field in the locality that was surrounded by a stone(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nancy Smith
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cormeen, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Patrick Smith
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cormeen, Co. Cavan
