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School: Ballymartin, Croom (roll number 4466)

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Ballymartin, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Teresa Lynch
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    ordered to go and boil the head.
    They went for water, and got it in Thubbernooraun, but on their return they said they brought the water from another well. The head was set to boil in this water, but if they were waiting yet, the water would not boil.
    An old man in the company asked the girls if they were telling the truth as to where the water was procured, and they then admitted where they got it. The old man took the water from the pot, put it in a can, and carried it back, letting it into a stream near the well.
    He then got water from another spring and put it in the pot with the pig's head.
    The head immediately went into jelly in the cold water.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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