Volume: CBÉ 0190

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1. The Redmoor Song (continued)

   

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   are small.
   The poor cockle beds must suffer for all.
   So now to conclude and finish my song
   Redmoor is there still and it won't be there long.

   

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2. Rats' Cleverness

   

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   There was a man one time and he was greatly troubled with swarms of rats. There was a big pot in the boil house always full of food for the pigs and when morning would the most of it would be eaten by the rats. He set a trap in it one night and the next morning he found the trap snapped but there was no rat to be seen. He set the trap again the

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   Date

   1 May 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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   • Nioclás Ó Néill