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   “There was a man named Mat Myler of Ballyvergin and he was dying...”

   

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   to a dance in Adamstown. He came a long way, twenty miles or so. When he was dancing for a while somebody asked him had they got the new priest down there yet. "O no" says the man we don't want him, we done up the ould wan."

   

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   There was once a man lived in Courtale Rahun and he was an awful man for playing cards Martin Kenny was his name. He would stop up the six night of the week playing them. There wasn't a card player in Wexford could come near him, for he could put three or four "sets" on the cards and he always knew what was in everybody's hand He was coming home from card - school wan Sunday - night and he had to pass through a

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   Date

   1935

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script