School: Tiobraid Árann (B.) (roll number 1285)
- Location:
- Tiobraid Árann, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Floinn
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“Many years ago there lived a woman in the Glen of Aherlow...”
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- Paddy Withero
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tiobraid Árann, Co. Thiobraid Árann
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- Mrs Withero
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tiobraid Árann, Co. Thiobraid Árann
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“Not long ago there lived a man who had three sons.”
Not long ago there lived a man who had three sons. The eldest of the three sons was a gambler and used to do nothing but gamble and cheat the people of their money and their belongings. Not only in the day time used he gamble but also in the night and he used to say out nearly all the night. His father could get no good out of him so himself and a few neighbours planned to frighten him. Very late one dark night the boy was was going home. On his way home he had to pass a graveyard and he was passing it his father dressed in a white (sheet) with a white sheet over him rose up(continues on next page)