School: Lenamore, Rathowen (roll number 5115)
- Location:
- Lenamore, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Brian Mac Tomas
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0769, Page 213
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- Long, Long ago in the parish of Ardagh there lived a farmer. This man kept a little boy to help him with his work.
This was a very well-to-do man and kept alot of cattle and horses. There was a fair to be held in the town of Longford in a few days time.
He told the little boy to go out and dig around a fort that was on the farm.
The boy did as he was told. The first day of his work he thought he saw(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridie Duffy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Newport, Co. Longford
- Informant
- P.O. Neill
- Gender
- Unknown
- Address
- Kinard, Co. Longford
