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   “It is very unlucky to leap from a ditch...”

   

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   him. He was all grey and old looking and was hardly to walk.

   

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   “There is a lane up near Gorey and it is called....”

   

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   There is a lane up near Gorey and it is called the North Cork lane. There was a battle fought there some time ago. This was in the time of the N. Cork Militia and the battle was a very big one and they fought all night and all day and only two people escaped out of them all. My father was building up a ditch in the lane and he came across the buttons of the N.C.M. and I used to play marbles for them when I was a small boy.

   

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   Date

   13 July 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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   • Máirtín Leighlin

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   “There was a girl wan time and she was working...”

   

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   There was a girl wan time and she was working at a certain farmer's place and this day she went out to the fields with the tea to the men and when she was

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