School: Scoil na mBráthar, Portlaoighse
- Location:
- Port Laoise, Co. Laoise
- Teacher: Br. Frampton
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0834, Page 326
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There is a tree that stands in BorrusLittle Some years ago - part of it lay across the road. Capt Kemmis could not pass with his carriage and horses. He decided to hire a man to cut the tree . No man around the locality would cut the tree. He cut cut the tree and got a pound for cutting it. He only lived five day afterwards. It is said to be a fairy tree. The trunk of it stands to this day. The man's arm withered before he died - Some twenty years ago there lived a(continues on next page)
