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School: Scairt (B.), Cill Dairbhe (roll number 4126)

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Scart, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Rinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0375, Page 191

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    the other half only grew about a height of six inches. Afterwards when the farmer was ploughing his field he found a piece of butter.
    Next year he had no wheat because it did not grow, that year his neighbour had a double crop. Sometimes when a farmer’s wife was making butter it would fail her and she could not sell it.
    Long ago there was a minister who used to cure diseases in horses. He used to say some words out of a book over the animal and while he was (the) saying them, the disease would be going away. A farmer took a horse with a swollen leg to this minister and while he was saying the words over the horse the swelling was going down. When the farmer went home the horses’s leg was better.
    Farahy graveyard is situated about a mile west of Kildorrery. There are three entrances to it. The main entrance is a double
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