Scoil: Tír na nEascrach

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1. (gan teideal)

   “At a place called the Meenen a company Messrs Markanson and King employed a good many men to dig a canal from the Shannon to the bog.”

   

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   At a place called the Meenen a company Messrs Markanson and King employed a good many men to dig a canal from the Shannon to the bog. They set up machinery for making turf. Mould and turf were thrown into a machine mixed and pressed. The turf came out of the machine like the big bars of soap women used buy. A man with a small hatchet cut the bars of turf into certain lengths as it came from the machine. These he placed on a board. Another man carried the board when filled to women who footted the turf - when dry the turf was placed in a

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

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   Topaicí

   1. am
      1. tréimhsí staire sonracha (~25)
         1. an gorta mór (~4,013)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Faisnéiseoir

   John E. Bohan

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   Fireann

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   Tír Chinn Eascrach, Co. na Gaillimhe