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School: Feevagh (roll number 9517)

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Feevagh, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Seán Ó Bhaldraithe
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    There was a man living in Toberavady Castle two hundred years ago. His name was Robert Ormsby. Toberavady Castle is built on a ford in the Suck, in the parish of Fuerty, about one mile south of Athleague.
    He was a magistrate and was the officer in charge of the English Soldiers guarding the line of the Suck. All the land between Ballinalsoe and Castlerea was under his control. He used t
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Lynch
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Derrycahill, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    Mrs B. Kelly
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    80
    Address
    Feevagh, Co. Roscommon