School: Ráithín (C.) (roll number 9384)

Location:
Raheen, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Peig, Bean Uí Chróinín
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    her absence and there was great quarrelling about the giving of her to her parents.
    Mary went to America immediately afterwards as her parents wisely decided it would be courting trouble to allow her live in the locality after her marvellous escape.
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  2. In the seventies and early eighties when I was young I remember an old man, to my young eyes approaching 70 but very active for his years. He was about 5' " 2" in height, clean shaven, had blue eyes and carried an unusually long walking stick for such a small, gentle looking man.
    I was told he was "Hurley" the
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