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School: Baile Mhic Citheóla (roll number 14759)

Location:
Ballymackeehola, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Seán Mac Giolla Bharraigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0145, Page 184

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    “In the village of Ballymachola there lived a fairly young man named Jack Kearney.”

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    miles that day. This happened about eighty years ago.
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    “About fifty or sixty years ago there lived a fairly old woman named Peggy Gaughan.”

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    About fifty or sixty years ago there lived a fairly old woman named Peggy Gaughan. She lived in a place named Gurtnahurra. She used to job on cattle. She always went barefooted. She would start off in the middle of the night to a fair in Ballycastle and sell a cow or two there. It would happen that
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    Language
    English
    Location
    Gortnahurra Upper, Co. Mayo
    Collector
    Anne K. Doherty
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Rathoma, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mrs John Doherty
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Rathoma, Co. Mayo