School: Corlea

Location:
Corlea, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
T. Ó Mearáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1009, Page 125

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  1. On that night all roofs were blown of as the houses in those days were thatched. Even all the stack's in the gardens were all tossed and blown into rivers. Farmers who were living close together had all their stuff blown in one heap and had great difficulty in known their own. All along the sea there were hundreds of fish blown out to the dry land.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. weather-lore (~6,442)
    2. processes and phenomena
      1. winds (~357)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Essie White
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Lisagoan, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Mary Carolan
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    68
    Address
    Lisagoan, Co. Cavan
  2. Boil the potatoes, peel them and bruise them. Add flour and salt and a little sugar. Mix all together. Roll it out thin cut in four farel's bake on a
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