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Volume: CBÉ 0437 (Part 4)

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1937
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0437, Page 0399

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    “There was another woman there long ago and she had the habit of saying "Lord open the gap for me".”

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    a piece of the house had fallen in. He called his wife to see it.
    "The devil carry ye", he said when she came, "there the lord has opened a gap for ye now".
    Corcaige Cairbre
    Diarmuid Ó h-Uallaig
    Shrcelane, An Léim, Co. Corcaige
    Cunntas 1/12/1937
    Pádraig Ó h-Uallaig
    56
    feirmeóir
    Shreelane
    Skaoitleaí
    About 40years ago "Stamps" was a popular game in this district at flax and potato meitheals. I saw it played once when I was about 20 years of age at a flax meitheal.
    In the old houses there were two rooms in
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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