School: Adoon (roll number 11152)

Location:
Adoon, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Charles Flynn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0222, Page 366

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0222, Page 366

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    socks from it, and then they used to dye different colours, and some people in this district still knit them, and wear them.
    In many houses in this district the people have some towels and sheets, which they made at home from the flax that they grew on their own farm.
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  2. About fifty years ago, there were Leipreachans seen in the fields in the day light.
    There was a man drawing hay one day, and he had to pass by a fort, but when he was coming with the third load of hay he heard a little noise in the fort. He went home, and in a while after he went back to
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    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
        1. leprechauns (~1,007)
    Language
    English