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School: Crubany

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Crubany, Co. Cavan
Teachers:
P. Cahill A. Ó Briain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0976, Page 236

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    About one hundred years ago, when there was no mode of conveyance except the horse and cart, which was much used for carting. My grandfather being a carter, I will here decribe how he used to cart flour. On a Sunday evening he would go with his horse and cart, to Clara, a town Offaly, accompanied by other men who were carters also. It would take these men to go and arrive back in Cavan six days. The names of the men
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