School: Ballyburke (roll number 5125)

Location:
Bellaburke, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Micheál Ó Cheallaigh
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  1. There was a old monestay in [?] in olden days. Where lived two hundred monks. There was one Irish monk among them who prayed day and night to God to give him the sight of heaven on this earth before he would die. One day after his breakfast he took his book and was reading it as he was walking along at the grove that led up from the monestay. He heard the whisling
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    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Collector
    Anne Staunton
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Killadeer, Co. Mayo