School: Boher (roll number 9409)

Location:
Bracknahevla, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
T. Kavanagh
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  1. A short distance from Moate on the road to Clara, there lived up to about fifty years ago a family named Cuddy (or Coady). They were very charitable people. During the famine years & later they were in very poor circumstances.
    One day a poor beggar almost dead from starvation called at the Coady's house, and asked for alms in the
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