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School: Flower Hill (roll number 12788)

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Flower Hill, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Isabel Mc Quade
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0700, Page 342

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    and elastic. I nail a piece of elastic over one end of the hole in the reel. Then I put a match-stick in the hole and I stretch the elastic and let it go and it pushes the matchstick out of the hole and makes it fly.
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    On the west bank of the Boyne about a mile from Navan there is a round tower called Donoughmore or Domnach Mor which means Great Church. There is also a ruined church there. St. Patrick gave a church there to his disciple Cassanus. The present church is not the one which was built in the fifth century, but it is one which was built in the 13th century by the Anglo-Normans. There is an old looking fir-tree just out-side the graveyard wall, and a priest is said to have been tied to this and whipped during the period of the
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    Language
    English
    Informant
    Stanley Elliott
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Flower Hill, Co. Meath