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1. The Moores (continued)

   

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   out over that gate. The gate is nearly seven feet high, with spikes on it. When she was jumping out the spikes tore her belly. She galloped down the street and just in front of the house, where she pulled down the chimney, here bowels fell out in the middle of the road and she fell dead.
   It is a remarkable thing that there are never more than two generations in a public house. If you take any public home around the locality you will find that the same people never held longer than two generations. There is never any luck following it.
   There are priests buried in the Protestant Church in Taghmon. When they were putting down the hot water pipes in the church they came across some bones when the floor was rooted

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   History Edit

   Date

   March 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Nicholas Moore