School: Scairt (B.), Cill Dairbhe (roll number 4126)

Location:
Scart, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Rinn
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  2. XML Page 273
  3. XML “The Fuel of Long Ago”
  4. XML “Story”

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    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
    2. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
        1. soothsayers (~116)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Mac Donald
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    13
    Informant
    Mrs Mc Donald
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    54
    Address
    Ballynoe, Co. Cork
  2. There was a man living in Farrahy about a hundred years ago. When he was three months old he spoke five words and at the age of seven months he was able to walk.
    When he was twelve years old he said to his father that he would
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