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School: Carrickgorman

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Carrickgorman, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
M. Fleming
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1006, Page 029

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    John Rooney of Carrickgorman in the parish of Killenkere, used to tell the neighbours who went on a ceilede to him the desperate biting the fleas gave him at Mrs. Holly's lodging house, Garrishon Co. Meath, and of the bother he had with a collie bitch which he kept in the kitchen at Quilcia.
    When he was a boy a crowd of dogs were around the house all night, John slept in a settle bed in the kitchen, and had the bitch tied to the leg of the table, in the middle of the night a big black dog fell down through the roof of the house into the bed on John.
    The story of his goat eating "Margaret Brown's" cabbage brought Miss Brown over to
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    James Cullen
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Togher, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Mr Michael Traynor
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Address
    Togher, Co. Cavan