School: Achadh Fobhair (roll number 13853)

Location:: Aghagower, Co. Mayo
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out of the corpse house. He was going across the fields for home and he heard some one coming after him and it was not long until the dead man walked up to him and almost killed him. His brother was coming and he got him half-dead. He brought him home and in a week after he died.
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Seán Máistir

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A number of years ago there was a hedge school in the village of Aughagower. The school master's name was Seán Maister. There was a castle in the village of Mount Brown. It was owned by Denis Brown. Every evening Seán went down to teach Denis's children - when he

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