School: Clonmacnoise

Location:: Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
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got afraid, and he crossed the ditch out into Aughincabe fields and before him he saw a big wood. He was walking for four hours through this wood. But at last he came to a height and he fell down the other side of it, and where was he but at Mickey Claffeys. And then he knew where he was and so he got home safe.
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One night a long time ago two women were coming home from making a station at St Ciarans well at about 9 o'clock.
When they came to Stirrabout Hollow, two little men about three feet high, with red caps and green coats came out of the bushes and walked behind them. After a while the women stood to see if it was someone from the village

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