School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceannanus Mór

Location:
Kells, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Máthais Íde
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  3. XML “After the Famine”
  4. XML “The First Christmas”

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    to go and scrape away the clay and take up the corpses.
    One man was asked why he did not bury the dead deeper and he said :- "Maybe I'd be here myself to-night"
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  2. Shepherds watched their flocks in the neighbourhood of Bethlehem on the night Our Lord was born in the stable.
    The lambs of the flocks were all white except one. This little one was grey and he felt very unhappy about it. He asked the sun and the rain, and the dew, and the frost, and
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    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
        1. Christmas (~455)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Teresa Morris
    Gender
    Female