School: Cnoc Beithe, An Fhiacail
- Location:
- An Cnoc Beitheach, Co. an Chláir
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Maolruanaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0592, Page 225
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- (continued from previous page)from some incidents which took place in them some time or other. The fields of greatest importance on our farm are:-Páirc na Lásaso called because the people coming to our house in cowith(?) used to say they used to see lights in it on a height that is in the field.
The "Clover Field"is a fairly big field and nothing used grow on it but clover long ago.
The Riask is a soft marshy near a lake or river.
The Páircín is a little field on the side of a hill which is extremely good for tillage.
The "Inshe" is a field by a river.There is a place by the name of the "Beárna" in the vicinity also.Lugán is the name of a field in this also.
Poill Marb is a place near the moutnain of Sliabh-an-Óir which means the mountain of gold.
"Páirc na n-Uan" is a field where lambs are grazing during the Summer months.
Knockbeha is the Irish name for this vicinity which means the hill of the birch. Flagmount means the forehead of the flags.
Loca Tórich means the lake of the boundary which is between Clare and Galway.
There is a cross in the vicinity named Scanlings Cross because a man by the name of Mr Scanlong died there during the famine years and the cross still bears his name.
Lough Graney is so called because when Diarmuid and Grauna were fleeing they passed by it.
- Collector
- Nancy Hoey
- Gender
- Female
