School: Gleannach (Glenough) (roll number 8224)
- Location:
- Glenough Lower, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Bean Uí Bhreasail
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“One evening not very long ago there was a man coming home from his work fairly late.”
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“Once upon a time a boy named Pat got a job of cutting turf for a farmer.”
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