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   “Every night the hens talk about going to Denmark the next day. and the next morning something always stops them from going.”

   

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   were able to go back to Denmark. And so when a hen is cackling she is saying "Nick Nick Natrick "Pick Pick Patrick" Hurrah, far Copenhagen. And farewell to Inis Fail" The women long ago knitted white cotton stockings for the children in the Summer. In the old Robertstown school the boy's school was on the floor and the girls up on the loft. Some of the big girls were teaching the young class. They were called monitors and some of those were made teachers afterwards. There used to be races in Robertstown long ago. The field was down in Annesloro. and is still called the race course. There were also races, fields in Grangeclare. In one of

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Marcella Ennis

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Grangeclare West, Co. Kildare