School: Cluain Meacan (roll number 11451)
- Location:
- Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Liam Ó Catháin
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- It is now nearly a hundred years ago, since a farmer named John Murphy lived in Knockane.He had a servant boy,whose name was John Sullivan. One day the servant boy was working with a fine horse. A "Protestant landlord called Raymond and whose descendants are still living in Dromin came to him and said "I want that horse for five pound The servant boy got up on the horse and he dropped dead so that Protestant could have not any satisfaction
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“Long ago there was a priest saying mass in a bog.”
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- Thomas Halpin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 38
- Address
- Dromin, Co. Kerry