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School: Christ Church, Castlebar (roll number 14358)

Location:
Castlebar, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
A. C. Ní Mhaitiú
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0154, Page 199

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    Thomas Jordan is a great story teller he lives in Corheens on the side of Breawfy. He is eighty two years of age now and he is yet alive. It was his father that heard the stories about an hundred and fifty years ago. He lives a quarter of a mile from our house in Cloonty Breawfy.
    There was once a man the of Shunt Kelly of Balloor in Breawfy. He would mow about an acre of land in a day. A good man would not keep the hay shaken
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Thomas Carson
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cloontybaunan, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Tommie Callihan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Keeloges New, Co. Mayo