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School: Glasleck

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Glasleck, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
O. Sharpe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1013, Page 015

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  1. The Garrawog

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    The Garrawóg
    Pat Hand often helped to carry a coffin to Moybolge Graveyard, when a funeral crossed a certain stream near the graveyard any Gargan in the procession hopped across the ditch to avoid crossing the spot. It was believed they did this to avoid crossing the Garrowóg to rise again
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  2. Garrawog - Mic Bolg

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    garrwig mic Bolg
    1/4 in lake beside it
    1/4 in hollow of plantation
    two other quarters elsewhere
    She was riding behind a man on a horse. Ordered man to give her blackberries. He gave her the blackberries. She ate them fasting the swallowed everything she met.
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      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. death (~1,076)
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