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School: Sliabh an Mhadra (C.)

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Slievawaddra, Co. Kerry
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Eibhlín Ní Chearbhaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0416, Page 273

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    to get men and women and baskets and commence drawing that up the side of a pathway along the side of the cliff until he had enough drawn.
    The other method was easier there was a rope that would reach from the top of the cliff down to the strand some of those cliffs are sixty four yards high and more of them are thirty or forty yards in height.
    There was a bank built about five feet high on the top of the cliff there was a plank of timber about twelve feet long got and a pulley put in one end and that
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peggy O' Neill
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Causeway, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    William Casey
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Sheepwalk, Co. Kerry