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School: Creewood (roll number 5331)

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Creewood, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Brighid, Bean Uí Chearnacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0715, Page 118

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    The names of the men are given in a song composed by the coach - James Reilly.
    Gargan and Wall brothers two
    Maguire, Flood and Reilly.
    And Rock we prize highly.
    We'll show them today what the Sally can do.
    In olden times the people walked from our district to Drogheda.
    It is nine miles from Creewood to Drogheda. Some men walked from
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Sheehy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Creewood, Co. Meath
    Informant
    James Reilly
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    49
    Address
    Creewood, Co. Meath
    Informant
    John Nevin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Creewood, Co. Meath
    Informant
    Mathew Halligan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    44
    Address
    Creewood, Co. Meath
    Informant
    Thomas Mc Hugh
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Creewood, Co. Meath