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School: Woodpole (roll number 7942)

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Woodpole, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Siobhán, Bean Uí Chonaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0705, Page 124

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    “The discovery of folk-lore is very interesting to most people nowadays.”

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    On the Bank of Sweet Loughbawn
    IV
    When to school I was a fool
    I would rather skip and play
    To quarrel and fight was my delight
    I practised every day
    I am now a slave going through my grave
    Myself I blame for all
    These letters well I could not spell
    Which stands for Sweet Loughbawn.
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    “Once upon a time there lived in Kieran a man named Kieran.”

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    Once upon a time there lived in Kieran a man named Kieran. He built a very big Catholic Church to which the people used to go on Sundays. He got five beautiful crosses which decorated the church
    One night St. Columcille came to steal the crosses but he only succeeded in getting two of them and a piece of the other because when he came back for the third cross St. Kieran caught him and succeeded in breaking one piece of it off. The piece is to be seen yet in the Black-water. The other piece of it is in Kells at Cooney's corner. It has three concrete steps around it. It is called the Cross of Kells now. There are three
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. penal times (~4,335)
    2. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Annie O' Reilly
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Keeran, Co. Meath