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School: Moyne (C.) (roll number 13990)

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Moyne, Co. Longford
Teacher:
Bean Uí Tháibh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0767, Page 046

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    The spring well I go to is in the corner of a field. It is in Patrick Mc Guinness's field. It is a very big deep well. It is about four feet deep. It is very nice clean cold water. It is always the same colour even when it rains or snows. There is a cement cap over the well. It is fixed very nicely all around it. There is a style going into the well and there is a pass over to it. The County Council got the well fixed. It was a man named Tom Reilly who fixed it. He died two months ago in Longford Hospital. There are ten families going to that well. Even when there is a couple of barrels of water taken
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Janie Corcoran
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Moyne, Co. Longford
    Informant
    Mrs Corcoran
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    56
    Address
    Moyne, Co. Longford