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   “One day as Sarsfield and his man rode out along the road, an English cavalry man came towards them.”

   

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   them all the time and when he saw it going too hard on his master he shouted to Sarsfield "srtike his horse on the head and when Bel will be falling strike him on the back of the (head) neck between head-piece and body-piece". The man said that in Irish and Bel did not un-derstand him. Sarsfield did however, and did what he was told. He cut the head off Bel and then says Sarsfield "Sin Beal na choir"- Theres Beal as he ought to be - That is why and how Balinacore got its name. O do not know where Balinacore is.

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   “There was a man who had a cow on the points of calving.”

   

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   There was a man who had a cow on the points of calving. He got up early in the morning to see her and then walked out. He missed one of his best calves. He went off looking for the calf at once towards Caherass, but instead of the calf he found a woman with long golden hair sitting weeping and olagoning near the river bank on a stone. He asked her what was the matter with her and she told him she had come to look after her children's graves. He asked her where they and she said they

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