School: St Columba's Abbey, Navan (roll number 882)

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up the defisit, gave him food and a pair of fresh stocking for the road. John Gerrard - a kind man One day John Gerrard was on his way to Carlanstown Fair (May-day) he found a sum of money on an old handkerchief. Farther on he met a peasant who was evidently looking for something + seemed to be very much distressed. Gerrard stopped and asked what was the matter. The peasant replied that he had lost the price of his cow + was looking for it. "I have found it" said Gerrard" "Oh! Give it to me + may God bless you" said the poor man. "I wouldn't part with it for all I have" said Gerrard but go up to Gibstown House + Give this not to the Steward + you can get the best cow on the estate. And so he did.
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Father's Disappearance and Son Killed

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Fathers disappearance + Sun killed.
There lived a family called Mc Graths on a small farm near a huge field which is now called the "Bansha." One day Tom Gerrards father went out to hunt and he took with him Mc Grath who knew the land for miles around. That evening Gerrard came back but Mc Grath never returned. It was rumoured that Mc Grath incurred his

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