School: Clochar na Trócaire, An Uaimh

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Navan, Co. Meath
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An tSiúr Concepta
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    fire with the rat. She ordered all door and windows to be barred. Then taking the rat she cast it into the fire. As it was dying a multitude of rats came round and made a terrible din. It never returned but every year on the night which the rat was burned the servants always hear a moaning crying sound in the room.
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