School: Gleann Gort, Caisleán Nua Thiar (roll number 7329)

Location:
Glengort South, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Treasa, Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
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  1. Lon ago there lived a woman her cream was going against her, she could not make any butter out of it. She would be making her churn from morning till night and it would turn into froth.
    One day as she was making her churn there was a ploughman ploughing convenient to her house. He came in for a coal of fire to redden his pipe. She refused him for the fire she told him her story how she could not make anything of her cream so he said "Keep still a while and he went out and took
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nora Barrett
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Toornafulla, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    Mrs James Forde
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    79
    Address
    Toornafulla, Co. Limerick