School: Uachtar Árd (roll number 4786)

Location:
Oughterard, Co. Galway
Teacher:
An tSr M. S. Iognáid
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0065, Page 175

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  2. There once lived a landlord in this locality named Toby O Flaherty. He was an old settler of Lemonfield. This was the way he gathered the rent from the tenants to get two parts every year of the produce of the farm. At the time of collecting the corn he used hire a lot of men and at the end of the season he used (hire) have an enormous pile of corn in the haggard. He had all the corn collected in October, but one village in Connemara. He ordered his men to be ready next day until they would collect and bring home what was due to him there. He said to his men "when ye have that gathered in I will say the old saying. " One of his men asked him how could he do that.
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