School: Laragh
- Location:
- Laragh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: M. Ní Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1007, Page 129
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- (continued from previous page)counties competed at these annual pat.
In recent years there is but one tent on the Rock, and the owner obtains an occasional licence at the District Court.The services of a fiddler is procured, but the number of dancers is very few. Practically all the people who attend come to either buy or sell horses.
- Ervey Meeting House is situated in the Meath portion of Kingscourt parish. When it was being built the site was prepared, and the masons worked for a day building the church. Next morning they discovered that all their work of the previous day had disappeared. They started anew, but next morning they saw that the same thing had happened. They began a third time, and when night came a guard was placed over the work. The material disappeared a third time. How it was taken away(continues on next page)
- Informant
- P.J. Gaynor
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Teevurcher, Co. Meath
