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School: Leath-árdán

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Lahardaun, Co. Mayo
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Máirtín Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0150, Page 26

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0150, Page 26

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  1. Steam-Rolling the Road from Crossmolina to Pontoon (continued)

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    in the day, and it would cost about eight hundred pounds per mile. In some parts of the road where the men could not break the stones, a crusher came along and broke them.
    It was the county council that steamrolled the road. They started steamrolling in October 1937, and they tarred it in May 1938. In a part of the road called "poll moR,"they had to put a lot of stones, because it was very soft, and on each side of it there is marshy land.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Doherty
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Knockfarnaght, Co. Mayo