School: Uachtar Árd (roll number 4786)

Location:
Oughterard, Co. Galway
Teacher:
An tSr M. S. Iognáid
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    would have to go to the smith and buy a wedge that the smith made before dawn and put it in the door and every time(s) the door opens it will draw the one who took the milk (frow) from the cow nearer to you and he will have to give it back to it again.
    Their people before them were smiths also.
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  2. I live in Portacarron, in the parish of Oughterard and in the barony of Moycullen.
    There are twelve houses in my village now but long ago there were fourteen houses in it. There are five houses with slates and seven houses with thatch the most of these houses long ago were thatched.
    The most common name in my village are Clancy's because there are two families of Clancy's in it and only one family of the others.
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    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)
    Language
    English
    Location
    Portacarron, Co. Galway
    Collector
    Annie Clancy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Portacarron, Co. Galway