School: Ceathrú Clochar

Location:
Rocksborough South, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Pádraig Pléimeann
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    A man went to England a long time ago.

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    killed. He put it on the end of the stick, and he kept walking. He met a woman and she said, "you have my watch broken", but he told her it was a toad. The woman started laughing, "I'll give you ten shillings for it" she said. So she gave him the ten shillings and he was very satisfied with his first day in England.
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    One Summers evening. as the sun was setting in the West, a poor man was walking the shore of the sea...

    One Summers evening, as the sun was setting in the West, a poor man was walking the shore of the sea when he noticed about a few yards from him a beautiful lady combing her hair on a rock. However he came un-noticed by her & caught her and said "you are mine now". She begged of him to let her go, but he wouldn't. After the marriage he hid the cloak behind a rafter in the barn, because she couldn't go to sea if she had it. They had three boys and one girl. The husband had to wait at home to mind her for a few days. It happened one day that the father and one of the boys was out in the barn in which the cloak was concealed. He took it down to look at it but, he replaced it again. The next day the
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