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School: Loch an Toirc (roll number 9584)

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Loughatorick South, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Bean Uí Mhuirgheasa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0050, Page 0262

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  2. Biddy Early

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    Biddy Early was a very intelligent old woman she lived near Feakle in the Co Clare she lived in a little straw thatched house by herself. She used to keep the house very neat inside and outside she had flowers grown in front of the house in a little flower ploy. Biddy was a woman of great wisdom she was like a fortuneteller people used to come from far and near to get advise from Biddy. As soon as anyone would come Biddy she could tell them what they wanted and what was going to happen to them and all the misfortune that happened to them from their infancy she could tell peoples name whom she
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