School: Cooneal (roll number 6416)

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1. The Making of Cooneal Road

   

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   The Making of Cooneal Road 20-10-'38 Long ago, this road from Lisglennon to Mrs. Traynor's, in front of this school, was only a bridle path, and Mr. Brennan of Knockduff Grand, father of the present Mr. Brennan Knockduff, took the contract of making this road, which is about three miles long. He did this road himself and his sons and he earned about fifty pounds. The wages at that time were very small, and they only got about four pence a day. Margaret Keegan Author - Thomas Mulhern

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   Topics

   1. objects
      1. man-made structures
         1. public infrastructure
            1. roads (~2,778)

   Language

   English

   Location

   Coonealmore, Co. Mayo

   Collector

   Margaret Keegan

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Thomas Mulhern

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Coonealmore, Co. Mayo

2. A Story

   “One day a man was going to the fair of Newtown riding on a horse.”

   

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   Cooneal - A Story
   One day a man was going to the fair of Newtown riding on a horse. While he was going along the road he heard a woman saying, "All the butter of the village for me", and each time the woman said this, he would say, "the half of it for me". When he reached Newtown, he put his hand into this pockets, and found them full of butter. He had to get down off his horse, and empty the butter out of his pockets.

   Margaret
   Author - Mrs. John Keegan

   

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