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School: Cobh Labhráis (C.) (roll number 7453)

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Rerrin, Co. Cork
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Áine, Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0277, Page 245

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    If a person went ploughing on St Abigal's day they thought it not right as long ago a man and his horses were ploughing in a field on that day and they were both thrown off the cliff. Also another man in Greenane some years ago was digging on the same day and one of the neighbours asked him why he was digging on that day and he said in Irish "Beadh triall agam indiu ar Gobnait." He left the field and went home and a few days afterwards
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