School: Clochar na Trócaire, Béal Átha 'n Fheadha (roll number 5215)

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   “Once there lived an old fisherman. He used to walk to the shore as he could go in a boat.”

   

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   on this shore" So from that day no man ever caught a fish on that shore.

   

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   “Long years ago there was a ship and it was called the Ballina ship.”

   

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   Long years ago there was a ship and it was called the Ballina ship. It used to come from Liverpool to Ballina. One very stormy night before it left Liverpool there were people on the shore a crowd of rats came out of the ship and an old woman said that is a very bad sign of that ship, so the ship began its journey. It was so heavy with wheat that it hardly could go up with the waves. Another ship met it around the coast of Donegal and the captain of the other ship said if the sea got any wilder than it was, there would be no hopes of the ship. All the men that was on the ship were from the Ballina Quay. When it was time

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   Topics

   1. objects
      1. man-made structures
         1. buildings
            1. schools (~4,094)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mrs Halloran

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Ballina, Co. Mayo