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School: Piercetown (C.) (roll number 8690)

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Piercetown, Co. Wexford
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Máire Furlong
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0879, Page 367

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  1. Folklore (continued)

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    what they had just seen.
    When Mass was over Fr. Kelly told the soldiers to go off with them-selves and never to be seen there again.
    The ruins of the Church are there still and it is said that it is haunted.
    In those ruins the people of to-day are about to erect a Memorial of our beloved Parish Priest
    The Very Rev. Fr. Thomas O Byrne P.P. Piercestown
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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  2. Riddles

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    Q. Why does a man with only one eye see more than a person with two ?
    Ans. Because he can see your two (eyes).
    Q. One fine day in the middle of the night
    Two dead men began to fight
    Two blind men were looking on
    Two cripples ran for the doctor
    Two dummies shouted hurry on. What is it ?
    Ans. A big lie.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
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