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

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1. Famine (continued)

   

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   the end of the coffin and let the corpse slip into the hole and the coffin was brought back for other people. Or the corpse was put into a canvas sack and put on their back and carried across the fields to the burial ground. During the famine, fever broke out and swept many people.

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2. A Story

   

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   About a quarter of a mile from Farrahy there is an underground passage and it is said that it is going as far as county Kerry. it is said that a man wanted to send a dog to his cousin in the county Kerry he sent the dog (through) through the passage an he landed in the county Kerry on the 20th of March. The dogs name was "Rover" (Cavern") and the passage is still called "Rover's Cavern".

   

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3. A Story

   

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   People say that there is a treasure hidden in Lismonahish in a lis. There is supposed to be a foxy woman and a bull minding the treasure. One time there was a man living in the upper lodge of Bowenscourt and one night when he was sitting by the fire a strange man walked

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