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School: Clonmacnoise

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Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
P. Ó Maolmhuaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0811, Page 218

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    went into the room where the second wife was and gave her a good beating in the bed. After that she never came back again, but the second woman was very kind to the first woman’s children.
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    There were people once named Horan living on the bog-road as you go to Ferbane in Clonfanlough. One of them a girl had a very strange looking face and people used to say that she was in the fairies. Anyhow she could tell things that were going to happen and she could tell how to cure animals and where to find things that were lost.
    One time a man named
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    Language
    English
    Informant
    Kieran Coughlan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    75
    Address
    Ballaghurt, Co. Offaly