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School: Currans (C.) (roll number 4460)

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Na Coirríní, Co. Chiarraí
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Nóra, Bean Uí Bhraoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0445, Page 105

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  1. Festival Customs - St Brigid's Day (continued)

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  2. A Story

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    Once upon a time the saints of Kerry sent a man to find a place to build a monastery. He could not ask anyone the name of the place. He began to build fences in a field then someone would come along and he would find out the name of the place without asking. One evening as he was going towards Killarney he heard a man ask another man if he saw his cow
    "Tá sí thuas" ar seisean "ar Sgithín ó Daoda ar Goirtín Acrú". That was the name of the place
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