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School: Tulach Ruacháin

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Tulrohaun, Co. Mayo
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Mícheál de Bhaldraithe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0109, Page 587

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    expected them home and she cleaned up the house and painted it. The day before they came home she had ordered a bag of meal from bandon's lorry and when the two girls came she told them that she had ordered a bag of meal from brandon's lorry. The two girls names were Mary and Ellen, and they thought that it was a bag of mail she had ordered so that evening Mary went to meet the postman and she got some letters from him. Her sister Ellen was out when she was coming and she told her mother that Mary was coming with the mail. "O the Lord save us," said the mother the devil a bit ever shill eat if she carried meal from the road.
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Lyons
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Delia Lyons
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Redhill, Co. Mayo