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School: Lenamore, Rathowen (roll number 5115)

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Lenamore, Co. Longford
Teacher:
Brian Mac Tomas
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0769, Page 239

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    wonderful potatoes, so large that no one would eat them. In the month of October six men started to dig the potatoes. They had a good lot dug at dinner time. They went to eat their dinners at the side of the ditch, and as they so, six little women came out of the rath, and started picking them and they got frightened. Some of them said they would not have anything to do with it anymore. They watched them for sometime, and in the end they left the field. Then the men went over to the rath to see if any
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Keenan
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    60
    Address
    Killeen, Co. Longford
    Informant
    Pat Byrne
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    76
    Address
    Treel, Co. Longford