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School: Killeenkere

Location:
Killinkere, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
A. Ó Cléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1005, Page 045

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  1. The Potato Crop (continued)

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    After some time they are fit for digging and are dug with spades and put into pits in the fields. Then they are covered with rushes and clay and left there for some months until they are brought in and stored in the barn.
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  2. My Home District

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    The townland I live in is Carriga and the parish of Killinkere. In it there are thirteen families and McCabes are the most common family of them all. Most of the houses are slated.
    In it there are four old people over seventy. They do not know Irish and they know some stories there address is carriga Killinkere Virginia.
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    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)
    Language
    English
    Location
    Cargagh, Co. Cavan