School: Fraine, Athboy (roll number 14766)
- Location:
- Fraine, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Brighid, Bean Uí Chonalláin
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- (continued from previous page)and its size is about six miles in length and six yards in width. There are no lakes in my home - district. There are 17 streams in the district. I know the names of three of them:- The Big Stream, The Brown Stream, and The foamy stream.
- Once upon a time there was a man going to a fair in Athlone. He met an English - man on the road. The English - man asked him what were the cattle worth. The man said they were worth twenty pounds. "Oh", said the English "if i had them in England they would be worth twice as much". The Irish man said "if you had the River Shannon in Hell it would be worth a penny a drop.
