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School: Páirc na Rian (C.), Rampark, Jenkinstown (roll number 4882)

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Rampark, Co. Louth
Teacher:
M. Ní Fhlannagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0660, Page 227

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    plank with the six hundred on his back therefore won the prize.
    A man by the name of Thomas Gallagher and another man by the name of Mickey O' Rourke carried four hundreds of potatoes each a distance of nine perches.
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    One day a man named Patrick Feehan carried a bag of corn containing cwts up to a loft.
    One day a woman from Carrick broad broke her spinning wheel. She carried it from Carrick broad to Mullaghbuoy herself to get it fixed. She walked back the next day with the spinning wheel. The distance from Carrick broad to Mullaghbuoy is twenty miles.
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    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Eibhlín Ní Fearáin
    Gender
    Female