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School: Banahoe

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Banagher, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
A. Mac an Bháird
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0978, Page 018

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0978, Page 018

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  1. A Story (continued)

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  2. Clay Pipes

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    An uncle of Jack (Go) Smith (son), Carrickatober, Crosskeys, and an old man from Banaho woud stand at the Belfry outside Crosskeys Church after Mass on Sundays and spent sometimes two hours smoking. Their clay pipes were a foot long; they had lids and from a little stump which projected under the bowl a pendant like the pendant of a watch hung. They lit their pipes with tinder or flint. That was sixty years ago.
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  3. Famine

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    It is believed that corpses were raised in Drumavaddy graveyard during the famine and consumed.
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