School: Maghachaidh (Newtowngore) (roll number 9353)
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- Newtowngore, Co. Leitrim
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- When Mrs Mc Ivor, Newtowngore was returning from the chapel a couple of weeks ago with B.Kate Maguire of Drumshamgore the Catter related the following incident to her. Miss Maguire had two very fine pigs fattening for market. One day a girl called to visit her and in the evening she was taken to the sty to look at the pigs - from the moment she saw thenm they got got sick and lay stretched out - on noticing this strange occurance Miss Maguire cut a piece of lining from the girl's coat and burned it under the pigs' nostrils and the pigs began to get well and thrived.
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