School: Drumbaragh (roll number 10801)
- Location:
- Drumbaragh, Co. Meath
- Teachers: M. Brighid Bean Uí Draoighneáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0703, Page 395
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- (continued from previous page)They came with her to the field and when they reached there every tuft of grass that they would meet, there would be a rope at it so that it was the end of the gold.
- There is a field owned by Mr Wilson, in which coal has been found. One day a man named James Smyth was cleaning in the 'Carrick' as the field is called he discovered several lumps of coal. He one-time worked in the pits in Scotland and he gave it as his opinion that the coal was of fair quality.
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- Collector
- Josephine Thornton
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- H. Mulvany
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Kells, Co. Meath
