School: Ballinalee (roll number 1174)
- Location:
- Ballinalee, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Mainchín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0766, Page 206
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- (continued from previous page)ghost "when those seven years are over". "Well" said the priest "be in it for ever"
Local tradition says that nobody named McCarthy should ever go swimming or boating in this lake which is only a small sheet of water, as a McCarthy will always be drowned in it. (James Mannix)
Oct. 26th 1937.
- Following on the purchase of a plot of land the seller gives the buyer twig and sod possession i.e. he presents him with a twig and a sod taken from the land to indicate that the purchaser now owns all that grows in and on the land.
