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School: Drumgownagh

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Drumgownagh, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Dominic Ó Huiginn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0222, Page 568

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  1. How A Girl Paid Her Debt (continued)

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  2. How A Woman Kept Her Promise

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    My teacher gave me this story which she says is true. A woman named Mc Kenna once lived in Mullaghbrack.
    One of her sons lived in England and she longed to go see him. She fell sick one day and she said she would go over to see him.
    She did not get going over and when she was about six months under her illness she died.
    On the night of her death, her son in England, heard a knock at the door. He opened the door but there was nobody there. "It is someone playing a trick on me" he said to his wife. When he sat
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