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1. My Home District - Carran Thomas (continued)

   

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   The ruins of some of some of those houses can still be seen. Some of those people went to America and they never returned. Some of them died and left not survivors after them then their houses fell down. I can only get the names of two families that I got details about are Kennedy and Greene. Greene lived in a small hut. He had one son. One evening when his son was coming from school he went to a near-by lake which is situated in the townland also. There was ice on the lake. The boy found the ice strong at the brink of the lake. He went some distance out in the ice, but suddenly the ice broke and the boy slipped into the water

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   Topics

   1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)

   Language

   English

   Location

   Carnanthomas, Co. Galway

   Collector

   Eileen Dolan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Carnanthomas, Co. Galway

   Informant

   Pat Dolan

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   75

   Address

   Brucken, Co. Galway