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Local Place Names
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There is a place in this district called Piercetown. It was so called because a man named Pierce Dalton owned the greater part of the land in this district in the early penal days. There is also another townland called Paddenstown. It is so called because Pádraic Dalton owned the greater part of it. It was Pierce Dalton who was supposed to have hidden the gold in Piercetown.There is an old bush in the town-land of Dalystown called Bacon bush. It was so called because an old man named Bacon died under it. There are some fields in Forgney called the "long field", "the soldier's garden" "Cuilín Cóir", and the bog-fields. A field in Piercetown is called "Skeheen". There is a fort in the field. There is also another called the "Batteries". There are two forts in it. Another still is called Malthouse Park. There was a malt-house there in olden times, where malt or whiskey was made. The ruins of the old malt-house are still to be seen. There is a field adjoining the residence of Mr T.J. Murtagh in this townland called "Shrehawn". There is a mound on it which they call the "Crann". Another field on low-lying land near a river is called "Curragh