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School: Kilturk (B.)

Location:
Kilmore, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
Ss. Ó Briain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0878, Page 016

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    and that the talk of raths being dangerous was only so much eye-wash. A few o' the lads around commenced to think he was right, and a lot of raths were going to be ploughed the next year if everything went right.
    But when the turnip thinning came around any-way a few people started to thin the turnips in the rath field and the noticed that every time they went over the rath now -an'-again they would hear a sort of a hiss an' a small stone wold bury itself in the ground along side of 'em. This only happened when they were on the rath and when they got on the level field again
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mrs B. Freeman
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    84
    Address
    Kilmore, Co. Wexford