School: Mount Plunkett (roll number 8096)

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   Stories In the Cromwellian times down in Kilkenny there lived monks. Those monks has their monastery under the ground. Anybody who would tell where those monks lived got a thousand pounds. A woman used to bring milk to the monastery. One day she fell out with the head monk and she went and told Cromwell where the monks were hiding she also told him that she would drop the milk as she went along and the could follow. Next evening she went to the monastery and Cromwell's soldiers followed. All the monks were murdered and the woman got a hundred pounds.

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   Topics

   1. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)
   2. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
         1. the great famine (~4,013)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Charles Fuery

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   65

   Address

   Mountplunkett, Co. Roscommon

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   One time there lived in Culleen a very strong man. He was a champion weight thrower. One day he threw a weight and he threw it so far as he could not find it. Sixteen years after he was digging in a field and he found the weight that he threw.

   

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