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School: Tooreen (St. Brigid's)

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Tooreen, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Áine Ní Fhlannagáin
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    so he put the bag of flour on his back in hopes that he would catch the cart, but he did not and he carried it home on his back which was a distance of three and a half mile.
    There was a man in Cloongoonaugh who carried a plough weighing nine stones a mile across fields and he also crossed many high and thorny ditches.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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