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School: Fleasgach (roll number 15842)

Location:
Flaskagh More, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Ss. Ó Maonaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0012, Page 411

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0012, Page 411

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  1. Games (continued)

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    to the ceiling with a string and straining to catch it with your mouth and if you get it you can keep it.
    Teller: Mrs Dowd
    Flaskagh
    Dunmore
    Tuam
    Co Galway
    Wrtier: Nuala Dowd
    Flaskagh
    Dunmore
    Tuam
    Co Galway
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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  2. Roads

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    Roads
    Long ago the time of the famine the people used to make roads. The women used to make them also. The wages they used to get was a penny a day. They used to make footpaths through the fields and have bushes marking the place where you would have to turn. There was also heaps of stones at crossroads marking the place where someone was buried. There is an old man buried in the hills of Cortown, Dunmore
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    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. public infrastructure
          1. roads (~2,778)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peg Dowd
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Flaskagh More, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Mrs Dowd
    Relation
    Unknown
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Flaskagh More, Co. Galway