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School: Géag (C.), Baile na Muc (roll number 13306)

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Gaigue, Co. Longford
Teacher:
Máire Ní Mhurchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0758, Page 260

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    what was inside it only a penknife. He was after walking from Lettergullion to Mullingar and it is his boot.
    Bernie Corrigan Lettergulluion used to go working to Dublin. In Dublin they make enormous hay ricks. One man pitches hay to another man in ladder while he in his turn pitches it to another man. One long Summers day three or four boys were pitching loads of hay to Bernie Corringan. They were giving him up enormous loads of hay trying to pull him out of the ladder. In the evening when they were tired at it but could not even knock him about. Corrigan said to them "Give me up the horse and cart and I will give it up to the other man
    Paddy Connaughan and Bernie Corrigan are still alive and living in Lettergullion.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Annie Larkin
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    14
    Address
    Gaigue, Co. Longford
    Informant
    Patrick Gunshinan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Lettergullion, Co. Longford