School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Cill Áirne

Location:
Killarney, Co. Kerry
Teachers:
An tSr. M. Déaglán An tSr. Marie Thérèse
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      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
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    Mrs Lynch
    Gender
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    Age
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    Farmer's wife
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    Knockeenduff, Co. Kerry
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    How the Eeel, that lives in the golden palace in Lough Kittane, walked one midsummer night into the Lower Lake...

    How the (Eeel), that lives in the golden palace in Lough Kittane, walked one midsummer night into the Lower Lake, kicking up a bobbery in the halls of O'Donoghue for which the eel is chained for impudence to the rock for ten thousand years in which we call O Donoghues prison and many's
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