School: Butlerstown (C.), Portláirge (roll number 14679)

Location:
Baile an Bhuitléaraigh Theas, Co. Phort Láirge
Teacher:
Bríd Ní Fhlannagáin
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    across the yard. Before his eyes, the bottom fell out of it and the milk went around.
    The time the Danes were in Ireland they made lioses. They were big forts in which they burned fires when invaders were coming. This was to give a signal to Danes in other forts. There was a lios in Ballyscanlan, which my grand-father ploughed. He then set potatoes in it, but very little grew.
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    Topics
    1. áit-spás-timpeallacht
      1. áiteanna osnádúrtha agus spioradálta (~158)
        1. ráthanna (~5,616)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eibhlín Ní Foghlúda
    Gender
    Female