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School: Druim Mór (roll number 16349)

Location:
Dromore, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
John Noonan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1098, Page 19

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    The old mill in Dromore!. oh that's Mansfield's oil mill. You thought t'was a flour mill? So t'was, but t'was an oil mill at first. What kind of oil? Not a one of me could tell you. Is it not tale? Aye it be to be, for its there since me grandfather's time. Oh the best of flour was milled there they say.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
    2. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)
    Language
    English
    Location
    Dromore, Co. Donegal
    Collector
    Gertie Noonan
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    John Mc Nulty
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    77
    Address
    Killygordon, Co. Donegal