School: Clochar na Trócaire, An Uaimh

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  2. One night in the year 1927 a woman named Mrs. Smyth who lives in Glenidan, Collinstown, Westmeath, was going along a dark lonely road, thinking over all the troubles that had come upon her since 1918. Death had visited her door twice and had taken away her beloved son and daughter. About these things she thought as she plodded along the dark muddy roadway to her dismal little home.
    She heard a weird scream behind her and looking around saw, to her amazement about a
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