Field Names in Your Townland
The field beside my house is called the Fort field. There is a fairy fort in the field.
Connie’s Hill
One field is called ‘the orchard field’.
The well field - several families used the well in this particular field up into the 1970s.
There is a field called ‘Packie Joe’s” after the man who used to live there.
Research by Darragh Casserly, Croghan NS, 6th class, 2018
Although I have known for many years that my great-great-grandfather, Jeremiah Murphy, emigrated from Kilshannig parish, near Mallow, Cork as part of the Peter Robinson settlement in 1825 to pioneer a homestead on west 1/2 Lot 19, Con.