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School: Teampall Mhuire

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Carbad Beg, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Eithne, Bean Uí Mhaonghaille
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0144, Page 003

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  1. The Harrows of Old

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    They used the same harrows as we use nowadays. They tied up a little bundle of straw with strings and made a collar. They used wooden hams, and reins made of suggans. They used halters instead of bridles, and rope traces.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
    2. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Margaret Lynn
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cartoon, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mrs Lynn
    Relation
    Unknown
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cartoon, Co. Mayo

  2. The Lacken Drowning

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    On the 28th October 1928 there were nine men drowned in Lacken Bay. The night was fine and the men went out fishing and when they were a mile out the wind arose. At first they thought it was a 'fairy breeze'. At length they wondered why it did not cease so they
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