School: Cill Tormóir (Cailíní)
- Location:
- Kiltormer, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Rós, Bean Uí Cheallacháin
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A flower bed.A fiddler in Cork had a brother a black-smith in Ireland. If the fiddler in Cork had no brother a black-smith in Ireland?(continues on next page)
