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School: Longueville, Malla (roll number 11332)

Location:
Longueville, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Caitlín Ní Dhonnchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0364, Page 239

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  1. Manner of Saying the Rosary

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    Nowadays each family says the Rosary in their own homes. Long ago however it was different. If there were many houses together the people of all the other houses gathered into one house and the holy prayer was said. When it was ended the people returned to their own houses.
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  2. The Body Snatchers

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    About 150 years ago body snatchers inhabited this country. They would come at night, open the graves and steal the bodies away. Then they would sell the bodies to doctors for scientific purposes.
    When these people were around poor people used to walk to Cork with bags of wool on their backs.
    One day at this time a certain man was on his way to Cork with his bag of wool.
    When it got dark, he got up to a man who had a similar bag on his back.
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    Joan Ambrose
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