School: Cluain Tuaiscirt (roll number 1405)

Location:
Clontuskert, Co. Galway
Teacher:
(name not given)
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  1. 14th-6-1937
    Toal a Gallagher's
    Life at Knocagar was so placid that any pebble cast into the stream made a welcome disturbance. There was much excitement when the word went round that a little stranger from the dimly known world that lay beyond our great wild mountain barrier was coming in to find a home amongst us.
    There was not any one half so excited as I, Dinny O'Friel; nor any one half so glad. And this not because I had any lack of pleasure in my life, or any lack of company; for the bird in the bush and the trout in the burn, not less than the hills and the streams, were my
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Cláir Ní Mhaoláin
    Gender
    Female