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School: Doire Leathan, Grange (roll number 14843)

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0155, Page 340

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    found poor Kelly still alive.
    The brave old man though numbe with cold walked home. He used to tell often of his adventures in the snow, and how, to keep himself alive, he took the whang out of his shoe and chewed it.

    5) Roger Feighney of Augharrow, Grange, carried a sack of meal - 20st - on his back from Muininane home - three miles
    6) Michael Gilmartin of Carnamadow moved an acre of good meadow with a scythe in one day.

    7) Patrick McGowan of Augharrow now in Ameirca could lift 1cwt of meal in one hand and 1cwt of flour in the other at the same time.
    8) Two members of the Currid family in New Grange dug a half-acre of clay land for oats with their two Láidhes in one
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Tomás Ó Cíaráin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Lyle, Co. Sligo