School: Camross, Mountrath (roll number 15933)

Location:
Camross, Co. Laois
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Heifearnáin
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    There was a great road passing at the back of the Slieve Bloom mountains.

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    they had to him for the land they had. There was one poor man who had only a very small piece of land, so the landlord made him pay a terrible lot of money for it. In the end the man got so poor that he was not able to pay any of the money so the landlord put him out of his house and put it up for sale. The house was up for sale for a long time and still no one was going into it so the old landlord did not know what to do. One day the
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    Language
    English
    Informant
    Matthew Collier
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Carrowreagh, Co. Laois