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School: Díseart, Droichead Átha (roll number 1434)

Location:
Dysart, Co. Louth
Teacher:
M. Ní Ailpín
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    Once upon a time there was a farmer and in one of his fields there was a lone bush and he was going to plough the field and one morning he told one of his servants to get a slashing hook and a saw and to out to field and cut the bush but the servant boy said he wouldn't go out to cut it that it might be unlucky so the farmer grew very angry and be paid the boy and told him clean out so the boy went home and the farmer went
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Campbell
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Hitchestown, Co. Louth