School: An Ghráinseach, Cluain Meala (roll number 7982)

Location:
Grange, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Séamus Ó Maolchathaigh
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    any particular number of mornings. His eyes never troubled him since.
    The last time I examined these holes each contained 3 inches of water although the weather had been dry for weeks before that.
    A rather large stone was stuck into A and when I took it up the lower half that was in the water had a peculiar purple shade. This came from the water as it was a piece of ordinary limestone.
    This "colour" might have come from excrement of birds eating blackberries although when I observed it, it was in the month of April when there are no blackberries.
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