School: Borris (B.)

Location:
Borris, Co. Carlow
Teacher:
Ss. Ó Loinneáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0904, Page 354

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  3. XML “Moloney's Half-Penny Dips”
  4. XML “A Great Carpenter”

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    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
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  2. About fifty years ago there lived in the little house where Danny Cahill is living now a man by the name of Owen Tallon he who was a great carpenter. Once when he was drunk a man by the name of Jack Kelly asked him to make a grate as he was a kind of a blacksmith. He went home and made a wooden one. When he had it made to the house to put it in, as he had it painted
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