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   which is called the maid of Sweet Gurteen which was composed by a man named Costello who wrote under the name of John O Brien. There is also a story told about Gurteen. The story says that St Patrick once asked a drink of water off a person in Gurteen and he refused it and St Patrick then cursed Gurteen.

   

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   One time in the district of Moygara there lived close to a hill a man who had a cow that was going to calf. He was going to sell her. A neighbouring man asked him to sell the cow to him but he would not. That man went home and another strange man came and asked him to sell the cow. He said he would not sell the cow. That if he intended to sell the cow he would give her to his neighbour. The strange man went. That night the man

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Alice O Neill

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Moygara, Co. Sligo

   Informant

   Thomas Lennon

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Moygara, Co. Sligo