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School: Cúlfada (roll number 13763)

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Culfadda, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Liam Barún
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0186, Page 125

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    Weeks after weeks and months after months are passing and some people are dying leaving their little homes for ever. More leaving their homes and going to some other land to eke out a living of some kind for them selves. It is very hard to look at these old houses and see nothing there but the foundations.
    In former times the old houses were built at the back of a hill. In the houses long ago there would be a bed in the kitchen called a pouch. They are in many
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
    2. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. buildings
          1. residential buildings (~2,723)
    3. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Paddy Judge
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Battlefield, Co. Sligo
    Informant
    Thomas Kielty
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Finisklin, Co. Sligo