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School: Bog-fhód (Buckode) (roll number 3736)

Location:
Buckode, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Muiris Mac Gearailt
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0191, Page 132

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    About a century ago there were eight men leaving Ganvagh for to go out in a boat to the Church Island. It was an old turf boat which they were going in. These boats, when a hole would come on them it was fixed with wire nails and old boards in a careless method.
    When they would be going across the Lake for a load of turf they used to bring a few sods of clay in the boat in order if a hole came on it they would put the sod on top of the hole
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. hardship (~1,565)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kevin Clancy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Sracummer, Co. Leitrim
    Informant
    Owen Meehan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    76
    Address
    Buckode, Co. Leitrim