School: Snaidhm (C.) (roll number 11799)

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1. Wild Animals Seen in the Sea (continued)

   

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   often washed in with the tide near the White Strand. There was a bone washed in there and it was the shape of an arch. It is now used as an archway over a gate in that locality and the two ends are coming to the ground and form pillars for the gate. Big lorries and cars can pass through this gateway. It is supposed to be the jaw bones of some huge sea-animal which had died.
   D. Cronin
   The Cottages Sneem
   [over 70]

   

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2. A Story of a Fairy Cow

   

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   There was a woman in this village and a red cow used to be with her own cows every day and she used not see her coming or see her going away and she used to be surprised because her own cows took no notice of her. One day she went driving her away from the cows and she disappeared. Mrs O'Sullivan was the name of the woman who owned the farm the cow used to inhabit.

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   Topics

   1. gníomhairí (~1)
      1. neacha neamhshaolta agus osnádúrtha (~14,864)
         1. Glas Ghoibhneann (~76)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mrs Hussey

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   c. 80

   Address

   An Gaorthadh, Co. Chiarraí