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School: Dangan (roll number 878)

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Dangan, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Brian Mag Fhógartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0692, Page 167

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    After the wedding they held a dance. During the dance all the boys round about got a rope and tied the latch of the door and got a ladder and went up to the top of the house and stuffed the chimney to keep the smoke down, and when the people in the house saw the house full of smoke they ran to open the door but they couldn't But a man named George Barrlow heard this he ran to open it and to let them and so they got up and and cleared the chimney.
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Scallan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Dangan, Co. Meath
    Informant
    Mrs Thomson
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    87
    Address
    Ballinrig, Co. Meath