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Coolnafarna, Co. Mayo
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0107, Page 267

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    with the rope Máire ordered him to bring. He headed the cow and went between the water and the cow, caught her and put the rope around her neck. He brought the cow home and tried her. In a week after he went to the same lake with a spear to catch more eels. He caught an eel. He lost him on the grass out of his hands the eel was so slippery. He wet his foot in trying to catch him in the bog hole. He pulled off his shoe to dry it. He began to pull up the green sedge to rub the water out of the shoe. There was something in the sedge that turned the whol lake
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Delia Naughton
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Coolloughra, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Laurence Kilroy
    Relation
    Unknown
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballyhaunis, Co. Mayo