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School: Caológa (2) (roll number 16309)

Location:
Keeloges, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Tadhg Ó Laoghaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1073, Page 116

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    The waters here contain many fresh water mussels. A fair proportion of these have pearls.
    Many strangers make a living by coming to fish for pearls in Summer. The local people never look for them though I think it may be profitable. One afternoon while bathing in Gartan Lough we opened a few dozen to pass the time.
    We found three very nice "seed" pearls and one rather good one about the size of a sweet pea seed.
    They look quite good.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
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    English
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    T. O Leary
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