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   of Ballymaclare. He had an awful pair of arms but he had no legs and he used to walk on his hands two miles to a shop in Cassagh for his groceries. He had a little garden; he used to dig it with a spade and sow potatoes and cabbage in it as good as anyone.

   

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   In the graveyard in Ballykerogue there are the remains of what was once a chapel. The altar is there still and you can see a little cement cross on it. People say that this cross was taken away several times but it always appeared back again Josie Caulfield. All the old people around my home in Ballykerogue say this It is also said that there was also a chapel in years gone by in the second field

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