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School: St Bridget's (roll number 13854)

Location:
Derrymore, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Máire Uí hOistín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0138D, Page 14_053

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    There was an old woman who lived in leenavesta. Her name was Winnie Egan. She started a road in leenavesta and she made it to the river of loughta. She made about a mile of a road and she made it as good as any man. It is called the old road of Loughta. This woman lived about two hundred years ago
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    She was my great great grandmother Egan Egan Egan hundred hundred hundred
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    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. public infrastructure
          1. roads (~2,778)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Cáit Ní Oistín
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Kate Hastings
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Leenavesta, Co. Mayo