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   “There is a big field down in Pollfur called Chapel Park...”

   

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   him doing nothing. He ploughed a couple of sods and he got so sleepy that he fell asleep between the handle-bars of the plough, and was dead asleep when the boss came out in the evening, to see what was keeping him out so late with the horses. When Tom Farrel got up the following morning he was a changed man. He had a very sleepy appearance, and remained that way until the day he died. The old field was never ploughed after that year.
   There is another story of an old rath or fort that was on a man's land, and it was in the centre of a great big field. The man who owned the field told the men it was a great pity to have that rath in the middle of his fine field. There were three big

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   History Edit

   Date

   1935

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Mrs Kennedy