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   “Near Tottenham Green a long time ago a black dog used to be seen.”

   

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   they were fully grown. When the summer time would come Murphy would hold the classes out in the open air.

   The teacher used be kept a week in each of the farmers houses in the locality. That school in the barn wasn't kept on very long. Another school was built in the Modebeg and school was carried on there for a number of years. After some time this school had to be closed up as it was too small and now there is a man living in it.
   Mrs Carthy Shawstown, The Mordebeg, Taghmon Age 60 years
   Mrs Carthy heard these stories from her mother who was 76 years of age when she died and was 17 years of age in 1847

   

   Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.

   History Edit

   Date

   9 Aibreán 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Mrs Carthy