School: Carrickatee (roll number 16481)

Location:: Carrickatee, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:: Éamonn Ó Dubhthaigh

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Giant's Grave

In the townland of Gragernagh on the land of Francis McMahon there is a Giants Grave on the top of a high hill. There are four stones standing upright in the form of pillars, about thirty inches high and a huge flat stone placed upon them, eleven feet long and four feet wide.

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Collector: Mary Gillen
Gender: female
Address: Gragarnagh, Co. Monaghan

Informant: Edward Gorm
Gender: male
Address: Gragarnagh, Co. Monaghan

Language: English

Plough-Making

I remember a man named Hazlett in the townland of Brackley making wooden ploughs. The farmers came to him for miles around to get their ploughs made and they believed that no other

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