School: Druim Mór

Location:
Dromore, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Seosamh Ó Catháin
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    from that time on he would not venture outside the door after nightfall.
    He was cured of his mania of trying to find out what made people afraid.
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    Long long ago a man lived in Co. Sligo. He had one son & this son was a 'rake'. His father got tired of his rakish ways and decided to send him out in the world & let him sink or swim. When he was going he gave him twenty pounds and his blessing. The boy set off & took ship at Sligo for a far foreign land. When he arrived at one of the South American Ports he saw a young girl tied to a stake on the top of a hill & a huge crowd of people gathered round her. He asked one of the by-standers what was the reason of the strange spectacle. The by-stander told him that she had disobeyed her mistress & the punishment for this was death or a fine of five
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