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School: Carraig na Heorna (roll number 10938)

Location:
Carricknahorna, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Susan Mary Irwin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1028, Page 390

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  1. A Funny Story

    “An old book was found in some of the old walls around and this is the contents of it.”

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    An old book was found in some of the old walls around and this is the contents of it.
    Mrs. Mary Honeywood died in the 127th year of her age. Before she died she said rise up daughter, go to your daughter for your daughter’s daughter has a young daughter.
    By this it appears there were five generations of them living at that time.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Susan Mary Irwin
    Gender
    Female