Old Crafts

CBÉS 1115

Maude Canny, Mrs Annie Canny

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“In the district of Tulnaree, Carndonagh, Co Donegal, there is a small village called Gort.”

CBÉS 1115

Maude Canny, Mrs Annie Canny

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“In the black 47 there was a man named Paddy Doherty in the Illies, and he had to travel two miles or so, for his share of the broughan.”

CBÉS 1115

Maude Canny, Mrs Annie Canny

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“In this same year 47 the potatoes rotted and Bishop Maginn, Lord Bishop of Raphoe and Derry, ordered the people of this locaility, to burn sod fires and to pit all the potatoes that they considered safe, in the ashes, to save them from rotting any further”

CBÉS 1115

Maude Canny, Mrs Annie Canny

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“Once our lord had been carrying a heavy cross, and there was a shoemaker sitting at work, and our Lord asked to get resting, and the shoemaker told him that there was where he should rest pointing to the cross.”

CBÉS 1115

Maude Canny, Mrs Patrica Davenport

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“The dandelion was drawn as tea is now is, and was given to people suffering from heart trouble on bronchitis.”

CBÉS 1115

Maude Canny, Mrs Annie Canny

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