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School: Naomh Colmcille (roll number 16047)

Location:
Achadh Mór, Co. Mhaigh Eo
Teacher:
Aindrias Mac Aodhagáin
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    It is said that one day when a man named Pat Henry was cutting trees that were growing around a fort, situated in Crosslard, suddenly he felt the ground shaking under him; and he heard a voise talking to him. Then he went into the house for his dinner, and when he came out, he found the trees that he had cut, growing again as they were before he had cut them. There is a fort in the village of Crossard, in the land of Tim Flannagan, there are lights
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    Topics
    1. áit-spás-timpeallacht
      1. áiteanna osnádúrtha agus spioradálta (~158)
        1. ráthanna (~5,616)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Dennis Finnegan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cúil na hÁtha Thuaidh, Co. Mhaigh Eo
    Informant
    Mrs Thomas Finnegan
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    49
    Address
    Cúil na hÁtha Thuaidh, Co. Mhaigh Eo