School: Ardkeenan

Location:
Ardkeenan, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
John Meares
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    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    May Cunningham
    Gender
    Female
  2. Two men were coming home from card-playing one of them had a pack of cards, they were coming across a bog they met a man and he asked them to have a game they said they would but they had no table, the man said he would not be long making one. He told them to look at the ground while he would be making one. Then they looked up and they saw a big table, and the three began playing. The man that the other man met, won all the money the had. During the game one
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