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School: Gort na Díogha (roll number 15587)

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Gortnadeeve West, Co. Galway
Teachers:
Séamus Ó Dochartaigh Bean Uí Dhochartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0016, Page 165

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0016, Page 165

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  3. XML “Lough Over”
  4. XML “Lavally Lake”

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  1. Lough Over (continued)

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  2. Lavally Lake

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    (1.2 village lake) The villiagers who live on the land where this lake is, had equal rights on the land. When lake dried up.
    Some of the neighbours tried to deprive a certain man of his share of grazing land where lake was dry. He went at night and with help carried a cock of hay as far as the swallow hole in his portion of land. The rammer the hay down the swallow hole and put other stuff with it and the lake river went dry after that. A man told my father it never dried since. This is no
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