School: Gort na Binne (roll number 4846)

Location:
Gortnabinny, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Máirín Ní Cheallacháin
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  1. The Whiteboys jumped from top of Rohum to Plás na mBúachaiullí Dána" and that is why the place is called "Plás na mBúachaillí Dána".
    The women of long ago use to be up very early long ago to have so much thread spun before breakfast.
    There was a woman long ago. Her sister died, and this woman used to hear her complaints every night.
    There was a woman there long ago and she walked into every lake in Caha and the deepest one of them was only up to her knee.
    There is an old house in the hill of Baureraugh called Tig Nora Bháin and it got its name from the woman that
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