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1. Our House and Farm (continued)

   

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   kinds of plants and flowers grow in our land; nettles, holly, wild rockets, black sallies, ask plants, dandelions, ivy and burdock. There are various birds that frequent our land; the blackbird, the robin the wren, the rook, the mag-pie, and the yellow-hammer. They all nest in our land. There are many insects and creepers that frequent our land: the frogs, the snails, worms, crickets, clock, blacklads, and spiders. There is a little story about one of our fields. There was a family living in "John Loftuse"s field" called Nearys. They all died but one old woman called "Mary Neary". No one ever went near the house after they died. The old woman wasn't to be seen for a long time. One day John Loftus went to the door and he saw her dead in a bed. He gathered the neighbours and they buried her in a hole at the head of our far field. When my grand-

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. economic activities
         1. agriculture (~2,659)
   2. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Ned Rafter

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ballyholan, Co. Mayo