School: Boher (roll number 9409)

Location:
Bracknahevla, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
T. Kavanagh
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  1. In St Brigid's time, there were a great many camps around the well. Some terrible diseases were prevalent among the inhabitants of the camps. Each patient went over to the well and ate some of the water-cress growing on it. As soon as they did so they were cured of the disease
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  2. There was an old man who had two mules he went to the well to draw away timber from it. The mules began to bite and plunge and no amount of force could make draw the load, even though it was not very great. The man then loaded the
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