School: Ceathrú Gabhann

Location:
Carrowgowan, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Brian Mac Dhuarcáin
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  1. There once lived in Barragolda on the top of the hill, a man named Tom Kelly.
    His father and his mother died when he was about twenty years old and he was left in the house alone.
    There was not one night in the week that he would not go out visiting to the neighbors in the village. On his way home from his nightly visit at about two o'clock in the morning he saw a gate in the field hung up but he could not see any posts to hold it up.
    It was not
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Commons
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Carrowgallda, Co. Mayo