Do your fields have names?

Apologies if this has come up before.

I grew up on a farm and each field has a name usually the person the land had been purchased form but sometime just a distinguishing feature like the hill field.

I have been doing some research in the 1901 censes and I could trace all the family name through the fields my family purchased.. in 1901 there was twelve family's in the town land now there are only three families decedent from the 1901 censes.

When I was a child the remain of houses were often visible in the fields there all gone now except for one.

visatorro

book published a few years ago, field names of meath, or something along those lines. interesting read

whelan2

visatorro wrote: »

book published a few years ago, field names of meath, or something along those lines. interesting read

theres one for louth too:) very good book, got it for my dad for christmas

KatyMac

I've got The Road Field, Heathery Hill, Ballindamsa (which I think is dancing town)

whelan2

buttercup field, fox cover, first mountain, top mountain, parc lauris, 3 corner,chappies..........

Reggie.

Field beside the yard. Field with the hole. Field behind the house. Field in front of house. Silage fields. River field. Beet field. O callaghans field. To name just a few

MickeyShtyles

Reggie. wrote: »

Field beside the yard. Field with the hole. Field behind the house. Field in front of house. Silage fields. River field. Beet field. O callaghans field. To name just a few

Stay going! Don't stop now!

One of ours is called celery field.
Other than that nothing!

Sam Kade

Also back in the early to mid 1900's if there were a lot of families with the same surname in one area they would give them double barrel names. Eg. The bill Johnny's, the Johnny jacks, if the Johnny jacks had a son called john he would be called john Johnny jacks. There were also a family that were very tall the fathers name was bill they called them the long bills. Interesting times nearly all gone now.

Limestone Cowboy

The pouldine, the gleann, coillte mulan to name a few.

onyerbikepat

mariaalice wrote: »

.... I have been doing some research in the 1901 censes and I could trace all the family name through the fields my family purchased.. in 1901 there was twelve family's in the town land now there are only three families decedent from the 1901 censes......

You can go back even further to around 1850 and she a map of houses on the land and the name of the farmer in each house. Griffith's Valuation of 1850. There is an interactive map and you can switch between today's google satellite views and the map from then.

http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/


What do lads do with 21 paddocks? Do they name them too.

I would be fairly certain that in 1850 my family were tenants on some Lords estate and wouldn't have had much at all. We do know that sometime in the 1850s they purchased a cottage and a small amount of land about 3 or 4 acres.

Username John

onyerbikepat wrote: »

You can go back even further to around 1850 and she a map of houses on the land and the name of the farmer in each house. Griffith's Valuation of 1850. There is an interactive map and you can switch between today's google satellite views and the map from then.

http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/


What do lads do with 21 paddocks? Do they name them too.

The Griffiths valuations are very interesting - I can see that we owned the same exact fields in the 1850s as we do at home today...

The fields names, well, the first ones show what fine land it is
Pairc na Carraige, An Carraig Rua, Pairc na Marbh, The Inch, Lyre are a few...

As for the paddocks - we never had 21 now, but you kinda do start half naming em - and before you know it, you end up with names like
the Far East, the Middle East, the Western, the Wild West

jimmy G M

Every field here has a name - The hill field, the field near Gordons, Nee's, Cahills, kilduffs, the side above in Kennedy's, the side below in kennedys, the long paddock, the short paddock, the paddock, the haggard, the field below the haggard, the field behind the plan, the rossaun, Cahill's rossaun, the limekiln field, the field up the pond road.

The field names generally indicate who owned it before us, or former uses.

We also have names on the old sheds - the barn, the cow house, the hen house, the pig house, the foal house, the horses stable, the loft, the granary, the boilerhouse.

jimmy G M

jimmy G M wrote: »

Every field here has a name - The hill field, the field near Gordons, Nee's, Cahills, kilduffs, the side above in Kennedy's, the side below in kennedys, the long paddock, the short paddock, the paddock, the haggard, the field below the haggard, the field behind the plan, the rossaun, Cahill's rossaun, the limekiln field, the field up the pond road.

The field names generally indicate who owned it before us, or former uses.

We also have names on the old sheds - the barn, the cow house, the hen house, the pig house, the foal house, the horses stable, the loft, the granary, the boilerhouse.

I had forgetting about the haggard and all the sheds with names and the round garden and the bees garden.

Into The Blue

The paddock, the well field, field beside the well field, field to the right of the house, field to the left of the house, second field, third field, macs meadow..

Sam Kade

mariaalice wrote: »

I would be fairly certain that in 1850 my family were tenants on some Lords estate and wouldn't have had much at all. We do know that sometime in the 1850s they purchased a cottage and a small amount of land about 3 or 4 acres.

On the 8th of July next the Catholic Church will put up all church records on the internet free of charge dating back to the 1700's should be able to trace your ancestors fairly easy if your catholic that is.

onyerbikepat

mariaalice wrote: »

I would be fairly certain that in 1850 my family were tenants on some Lords estate and wouldn't have had much at all. We do know that sometime in the 1850s they purchased a cottage and a small amount of land about 3 or 4 acres.

Remember it was the same for everyone, all tenants on large estates owned by British Landlords. Even if you only rented a cottage and an acre, you were still registered.

There is some cork folk singer who has writhe a song about all the fields on his grandparent farm cant think of his name now but its a lovey song and you can feel the love he had for the place.

zetecescort

just looking on the Griffith's valuations that 2 of our fields are in a different townland and part of the neighbours farm. Learn something everyday.

James 007

Although not on a farm anymore, I grew up with:

The cottage field
The fort field

By neighbour surname:

Langfords
Dalys

zetecescort

mariaalice wrote: »

There is some cork folk singer who has writhe a song about all the fields on his grandparent farm cant think of his name now but its a lovey song and you can feel the love he had for the place.

written by John Spillane, sung here by Christy Moore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C5pP-GbQtQ

Jb1989

Can't believe no one had mentioned the best field in the east,
"The relic"
Poor Benjy riordan has to get the socks on the plough first tho...
http://youtu.be/6r8WO6LbRco

_Brian

All if them here have names.

This might be a bit nuts but I find great comfort in thinking about all the ancestors who walked the same fields and lanes, who lived thrived and survived.

mayota

Tillage field, lime kiln field, the haggart, the gráin, the fort, night field, whinny hill, the paddock, muine fluich, the shroy, quarry field, the big field.

Dawggone

Got some nice names of parcels now.

North Uryan.
Grande Vue.
La Plaine.


Last farm...
Sheepwalk.
The racecourse.
Sandpit.

Mehaffey1

D1-D31b (Dairy), E1-E7 (Effluent), P1-P4 (Point), T1-T3 (Terraced), A-F (Lease Block) and the Hill Block. Nothing exciting or mysterious going on there. Point paddocks are on the edge of the farm overlooking a huge gorge and terraced is a word used here for on the edge of a hill.

stop animal cruelty

Mary sullivans....

milkprofit

Pigeon hare kite badger buzzard
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Shake bog
Deer stag

Jb1989

Don't shoot me
That field stretching down to the bog,
"Mary's bottom"

Greengrass1

We have bog 1 to 5
park 1 and 2
mill o doyles
The burrow
the big field
yard lower and yard upper

serfspup

all ours have names frequently relating to a neighbours
but having had to take legal action against one a##hole over a right of way I have had the privilage of renaming one of the fields that was named after his family.
I renamed it after a man who first ploughed it after dad bought the land
and he loved it,Leo RIP

Deepsouthwest

Have one called the "tragedy field" after my father broke his leg there a long, long time ago!

madmaggie

Lovely thread this. I have the road field, spout field, little field, stone field, top field, upper and lower haggards, the crut and the bog. The stone field has a gallan (standing stone) with a hand imprint on top of it.

agriman27

I have a field called 'The Battle Field' I don't know why but I'd love to know why. I can see that I would be a suitable site for a battle.

howdee

The book corner, Was a hedge school there in the 1700's
the masspath, was an old path through it used for going to mass.
The rest of them are named after people the used to own them or people that had houses in them that have since being levelled.

youllbemine

The Meadow, The Acre, The Stripes, The Sling, The Long Field and my favourite The Flat Field. Gives you an idea of the topography of the place.

Muckit

Jb1989 wrote: »

Don't shoot me
That field stretching down to the bog,
"Mary's bottom"

Would Marys bottom be wet?

KatW4

I know we have the L field, the callagh and the fox cover. Not too sure of the names of the others!

Zoo4m8

Fields.. Booths, the bog, the stand house, the hill, the small hill, pigeon park, sheep house field, Glen garden, bleaching green, the lodge, the fifteen acres..Irish acres, its twenty five statute acres which has to be explained to anyone, which seems to be everyone ,who says " God, that looks a big field for fifteen acres.."

Sheds..top sheep house, bottom sheep house, stables, mill house, potatoes house, Jims office, shed under the ladder!, boat house ( father allowed a lad store his boat there one winter many years ago..) etc etc

whelan2

KatW4 wrote: »

I know we have the L field, the callagh and the fox cover. Not too sure of the names of the others!

we have an L field and a fox cover too:) also the rox, planton, green , rushy

dudara

All ours are "gort something" (Gaeltacht region) An Gort Buí, An Gort Fada etc

Jb1989

Muckit wrote: »

Would Marys bottom be wet?

Sometimes... People get stuck in it from time to time...

Blackgrass

Plough mans sorrow is mos apt one, Bomb crater, Yanks hide, gallows field next to local village is most eerie.

onyerbikepat

Jb1989 wrote: »

Don't shoot me
That field stretching down to the bog,
"Mary's bottom"

We had a field called 'The Bottoms'. A wet low lying boggy type.
Well one time I had a friend visiting frim school. I was maybe 9 or 10 at the time. I turned around to him as we were heading out the door and went - "Would you like to see our Bottoms?"

Mr Rhode Island Red

Field beside the house, small paddock above the orchard, Heneghan's Field, The Hill, Field above The Hill.

Back-at-the-land, Second-Field-Back-at-the-land, Old Potato Field, Field Below the Rock, The Rock, Field Above The Rock.

Jb1989

onyerbikepat wrote: »

We had a field called 'The Bottoms'. A wet low lying boggy type.
Well one time I had a friend visiting frim school. I was maybe 9 or 10 at the time. I turned around to him as we were heading out the door and went - "Would you like to see our Bottoms?"

Haha I lol'd at that

anti christ

The 5 acre.the big field.butts place.the front field.the13 acre.willie jons.dicks hill..the reseaded field..even though it was reseeded 22 years back..trees field..calves corner...house field..the windy hill...the priest field..the paddock..the masters field..the rock field

Mac Taylor

The longstone, limekiln, well park, the piggery field, and the more recent, the field in front of the house, behind the house and the new house field, all christened by my youngest.

colmwexford

The avenue field, the ball alley field, the iron gate field, top of the haggard field, side of the haggard field, the orchard field , top of the lane field, freaney's field, the middle field, the long field, the top field, the copse field

stretch film

Have a field called the Ocean.
Story goes that some helper didnt fancy picking stones in that "ocean" of a field .