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School: Clonmacnoise

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Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
P. Ó Maolmhuaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0811, Page 142

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    boiling water upon the enemy and scald them. The enemy then would have to go away.
    As we know there were no houses in those days so every monk used to have a little hut of his own. The enemy used to burn down all the little huts and when they were gone every one of the monks had to build another new hut for himself.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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