School: Gort an Locha (roll number 1414)

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   “A long time ago there lived a man in Ballghboy called John Neiphen.”

   

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   A long time ago there lived a man in Ballaghboy called John Neiphen. A cow went up to the mountain a long distance from his house. She fell sick and the man had no way of taking her to his house. Then he sent for Mult Ganly who put the cow on his shoulders and ran down the mountain with her. He had her in Neiphen's cow-house, a distance of a half-mile, in a quarter of an hour.

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   1. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Timothy Mc Donagh

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ballaghboy, Co. Sligo

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   “Mrs Pye (Mary McGee) walked to Sligo, a distance of nineteen miles and was in Pound Street at eight o' clock in the morning.”

   

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   Mrs Pye (Mary McGee) walked to Sligo, a distance of nineteen miles and was in Pound Street at eight o' clock in the morning. She walked home also. When she returned she milked her cows in a field called the acres, near her house. Another day she and her step-daughter went to Riverstown, a distance of six miles for cwt. of meal and they could not get any there, so they went to

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