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School: Gort na Léime (roll number 13012)

Location:
Gortaleam, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Pádhraic Ó Corcoráin
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    “A man named James Moore from Lissy Connor, Dunmore”

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    A man named James Moore from Lissy Connor, Dunmore, He was one year in England making hay for a farmer. There was a river close by it was twenty one feet wide. There were a few more men with him. He said that he would jump the river and they said he would not. They bet a pound and he bet his weeks wages
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