School: Liosmheadhráin (roll number 12335)

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   “Long ago a man and his wife...”

   

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   river and on their return home they found the boy dead on the path before them. They took him home to his parents.
   His parents thought the boy was in bed all the time.

   Maureen Durkan

   

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   “A short time ago there lived a priest...”

   

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   A short time ago there lived a priest in Kiltimagh named Fr. Pc O'Hara. He had (four thousand) 4000 and he said he would use this money in building a hospital. Before the men could start building the hospital there were two lone white-thorn bushes which the priest wanted to be cut down, but he could get nobody to cut them. At last a man from near Kiltimagh named John Gill said he would cut them. So he cut

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