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   “There is a big field down in Pollfur called Chapel Park...”

   

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   There is a big field down in Pollfur called Chapel Park, and Dungulf Castle is in one end of it. In another end of it was an old churchyard in former years. It was a field that was never ploughed, but one day the owner said what harm would it be to plough it anyway, so he sent out a man to plough it. This man, Tom Farrell by name ploughed away on the field but didn't go near the old graveyard. The owner told him to plough away on the grave-yard, as it was very old. So Tom started to plough the grave-yard. He hadn't gone very far when he got awful sleepy, so he came back and went to another part of the field and the sleep left him. After a while he went back again, as he was afraid the boss would catch

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   Date

   1935

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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