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School: Mungraid (B.) Luimneach (roll number 14409)

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Mungret, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Mrs B. Mulroy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0528, Page 142

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  1. Churning (continued)

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  2. Story of Butter Stealing

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    Story of butter stealing
    One day a priest was walking across the Sheeps hill at Kuska, where he came upin an old hag gathering dew from the long grass and saying aloud "all for me ". The priest asbsent minded said "And half for me". Next morning he found a large tub of butter in his dairy. Some of the neighbours came and complained that they had no butter at all. The priest remembered what he had seen the old hag doing. So they went and searched her house and found three large firkins of butter although
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