School: Eileastrom (2)

Location:
Eileastran Mór, Co. Dhún na nGall
Teacher:
Máire Nic Uilcín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1084, Page 238

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  3. XML “The Potato Crop”
  4. XML “A Story about St Colmcille”
  5. XML “The Fairies”

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    Some farmers help each other at the digging of the potatoes and setting them. If two farmers have only one horse, one farmer gets the two horses for one day then the other gets the two horses for the next day, and the do the same when they are digging the potatoes.
    There is a man in Ballyherron named Sam Stot, he has a wooden plough but it is decaying.
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    Topics
    1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. gníomhaíochtaí eacnamaíocha
        1. talmhaíocht (~2,659)
    2. gníomhairí (~1)
      1. neacha neamhshaolta agus osnádúrtha (~14,864)
        1. naoimh
          1. Colm Cille (~265)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Moses Stewart
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Gort na bhFearn, Co. Dhún na nGall
    Informant
    Mrs Kelso
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Gort na bhFearn, Co. Dhún na nGall
  3. There is a man named Andrew Crawford he lives in Ballyherron. He ploughed a little field that the Fairies always played in, there is a big
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