School: Cill Beathach (roll number 16807)

Location:
Kilbaha Middle, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Tomás Ó Ceallacháin
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    People usually get married during Lent.

    People usually get married during Lent. Mondays and Fridays are unlucky days for getting married. It is said that the month of May is an unlucky month for getting married. Long ago when people were getting married in the chapel, the man and his wife returned home on horseback.
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    Bridget Kennelly
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    Timothy Kennelly
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    There was a blessed well in Jim Barrett's field and people washed clothes at the mouth of it and one day a bird came...

    There was a blessed well in Jim Barrett's field and people washed clothes at the mouth of it and one day a bird came and took a trowel from the mouth of the well and layed it in Tim Barrett's field and the well sprung up where the trowel was laid. People
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