School: Flower Hill (roll number 12788)

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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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2. Donoughmore

   

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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