School: Cnoc an Doire (C.) (roll number 2419)

Location:
Knockaderry, Co. Kerry
Teachers:
Nóra Ní Chorcoráin Maire Nic Chárthaigh
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    A boy and his mother lived in a house together.

    A boy and his mother lived in a house together. One night the mother took ill. and she sent her son for the priest. When the priest came she said the woman was bad and that he would anoint her. When he asked her son for the Blessed candle and the son said "I have no candle Father, will the old lamp do.
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    Sheila Brosnan
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    Dan Brosnan
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    There was once an old man whose was dead. His daughter was in America.

    There was once an old man whose was dead. His daughter was in America. He wrote to her to come home and take care of him as he was getting old. The girl came home after a week. When she went to be the first night, she heard a knock at the door. She could she no-body. The second nigh when
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