School: Baconstown (roll number 2905)

Location:
Baconstown, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Micheál Ua Coisde
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    Once upon a time long long ago there were two men working in a field beside a bog. One man said to the other. "I hear some one crying in the wood". so the other man went into the wood, and he saw a man killing a woman and he told his friend what he saw. The man that killed the woman was mad. One of the men said to the mad man, why did you kill that woman, and the mad man said nothing but caught the man, and killed him too.
    The other man got away. The mad man buried the woman and man in a big hole in the wood. A good while after that a man was cutting turf beside the wood and he found their skulls.
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