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School: Ballyfin, Mountrath (roll number 15537)

Location:
An Baile Fionn, Co. Laoise
Teacher:
S. Mac Giolla Fhionáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0834, Page 037

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    the ladder. The other men got it for him. One of them told him to go on with it.
    Away went Jack with the ladder on his shoulder and took it to (My) Mr Byrne.
    There is a man in Ballyhuppahawn named Sam Brownlie and he mowed an acre by a path, and every swarth he mowed he ran up the path. When he was finished it was four o'clock.
    He went out another day to cut two acres of a meadow with his brother John. They took a swarth each around the meadow. On the second round Sam stopped to rest and John went on. Sam said to himself he would be time enough for
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. gníomhairí (~1)
      1. pearsana stairiúla (~5,068)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mrs Fingleton
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    An Baile Loiscthe, Co. Laoise