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School: Shanbogh, New Ross (roll number 5297)

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Shanbogh Upper, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Seán Ó Dubhghaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0846, Page 174

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    certain spot. Then on returning one morning the masons found that the part they had built the evening before had fallen down. They rebuilt it, but, was down again the following morning. To their consternation they discovered that with that part of the wall "what they built in the day was down in the night"
    They then decided to arch it and in this way got by the unholy spot.
    Carr.
    Very little seems to be know of this gentleman except what I have mentioned on P 54 - re the famine.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Ned Fortune
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Fisherman
    Address
    Shanbogh Upper, Co. Kilkenny