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School: Baile Ard

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An Baile Ard, Co. an Chláir
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Tomás Ó Floinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0627, Page 131

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    them embedded in concrete.
    The graveyard in Kitenane ( ) is not as old as the ones in Killard and Doonbeg. The time of the famine a great many people died around here, and there were a great many bones of people thrown around the graveyard in Killard. There was a house in Killard and it was a great house for "gamblers". One night a whole crowd of (of) boys were gathered in cúairb and they betted a noggin of whiskey with one of the fellows that he would not go to the graveyard and bring one of the bones back, and he said he would.
    He set out to the graveyard for the bone One of the boys who bet with
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. earraí
      1. struchtúir de dhéantús an duine
        1. séadchomharthaí (~6,794)
          1. reiligí (~2,501)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Veronica Flynn
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    An Baile Ard, Co. an Chláir
    Informant
    Charles Clancy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    An Dún Mór, Co. an Chláir