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School: Bog-fhód (Buckode) (roll number 3736)

Location:
Buckode, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Muiris Mac Gearailt
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0191, Page 149

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    Long, long ago their lived an old woman on the shore of Lough Melvin by the name of Catherine Mc Gloin. During the same time there used to come a family of tinkers to an old road beside her house. This road was a place where tinkers used to meet always.
    One day there came tinkers and it happened to be a Sunday when they came and the old woman was sick and was not at mass. They asked her why she was not at mass and she told
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. people by social grouping
        1. travellers (~3,023)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Noel Gilmartin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kinlough, Co. Leitrim
    Informant
    Owen Meehan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    76
    Address
    Buckode, Co. Leitrim