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    Geata Buidhe:-
    This gate is about two miles from this school. It means the yellow gate. It was put there over one hundred years ago by a man named General Mearse. There used to be a festival held there every four years on the 16th June. All the people dressed in yellow and the old Gaelic historians called it by the name it bears to-day. It is broken and propped with iron bars and is all rust now.
    Maureen Kelly
    15th Sept 1938
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Location
    Irishtown, Co. Westmeath
    Collector
    Maureen Kelly
    Gender
    Female