School: Drumgownagh
- Location:
- Drumgownagh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Dominic Ó Huiginn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0222, Page 593
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- (continued from previous page)On May Eve May-flowers are got and some flung about the house. A whin is sunk down in the dughill and May Flowers are strewn on it.
A True Story
“One morning Jimmy Mac Kenna was going to a fair.”
One morning Jimmy Mac Kenna was going to a fair. He had to pass by a new line. When he was about to pas it a bag of oats tumbled out on the road before him. Jimmy began to sweat. The bag spread itself on the road and went up into the sky. A True Story
“One night there were two men going to a fair in Longford.”
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