School: Kilmorgan (roll number 12444)

Location:
Kilmorgan, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Kathleen M. Doyle
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        1. agriculture (~2,659)
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  2. There is an old garden near the bog quite convenient to my house. There lived a man in a wooden house about three hundred years ago No body liked to see him looking at their cattle because it was said that he would over look them. One day he came to my grand father's father and asked him to sell him three of the cows. The man had no notion of selling them and he said he would not. Then the buyer was
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