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School: Cill Beathach (roll number 16807)

Location:
Kilbaha Middle, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Tomás Ó Ceallacháin
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    “The following are names for money.”

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    The following are names for money: a tanner is another name for a sixpence, a bob is a shilling, a quid is a pound, a fiver is five pounds.
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    “The name of our home district is Kilbaha.”

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    The name of our home district is Kilbaha. Anybody is sure how it got its name. Some people say that there was a wood there long ago and birch trees grew in the wood. Others say that there was a church in it. The river gale runs
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
          1. treasure legends (~7,411)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bridget Kennelly
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Timothy Kennelly
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male