School: Castletown
- Location:
- Baile an Chaisleáin, Co. na Mí
- Teacher: Owen Maguire
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- (continued from previous page)It is supposed to have some cure. A man named Mr Bird once came from America to drink the water of this well.
- The Bracken is a field at Knock. It once was covered with nothing only bracken. It was on the borders of a lake which spread from Knock to a place called Clogher in Rathkenny. There is a huge hill in Knock called Cnoc a canney The Riasc, it got this name on account of it being wet land. Umora Mora is a field at Knock.
- Collector
- Larry Farrelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knock, Co. na Mí
- Cullogin Hill is a hill on Mr Lynch's farm at Castletown. The Nunan field is in Mitchelstown.
Beside the River Wee is a place called the Rasin.
There is a field in Rockfiled called the Miggledeen.
The Glochan is the name of a field in Mitchelstown.
The Buggar is also in Mitchelstown.
There is a field in Cornscop called Creevela.
At Stoke's Cross there is a field called Mullathomais.
There is a field beside it called the Mollieive.
At Ballnascarry hill there is a field called the Slang.
There is a field in Painstown called (?) it got its name because a man of the name of (?) owned it. Its present owner is Mr Meade.