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School: Templeorum, Piltown (roll number 6289)

Location:
Teampall Fhothram, Co. Chill Chainnigh
Teacher:
P. Hickey
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    In olden times the people use to get up early to go to the fairs. One morning very early a man was going to a fair. He met a funeral. The last in the crowd was his sister who had been buried a few months before. She had not much clothes on her.? She told him that the person to whom you gave my clothes, pawned them. So get them and get a mass said for (them) her. So he did. He never saw her again.
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    1. seánra
      1. ealaín bhéil (~1,483)
        1. scéalta grinn (~6,086)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Dick Dalton
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Baile Shéamais, Co. Chill Chainnigh
    Informant
    Michael Dalton
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Baile Shéamais, Co. Chill Chainnigh