School: Convent Girls' School, Ballymote

Location:
Ballymote, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Sr. M. Patrick
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  1. Long ago it was the custom to make wooden gates. They used to get two branches of a tree and put bits of branches across and get leather and put it on them and the name of them gates were called swinging gates.
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