School: Stracarne (roll number 16343)

Location:
Sragarn, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
P. Mac Aonghusa
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    that no one would be coming into the graveyard at night. They got in anyway and the two little boys sat down on a tombstone to divide their apples, and this is the way they used to do it. "One to you, and one to me, one to you, and one to me, and they continued this until they had all the apples counted out.
    There was a man living not very far from the graveyard, and there used to be always "ceilidheis" in this house, and and would be late when they would go home. As they were passing by the graveyard, and heard the little talk inside they did not know what was wrong. They went back to the house again and told the
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