School: Scoil na mBráthar, Calainn

Location:
Callan, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
An Mháthair M. Síle
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    to tell them.
    Then they tied a rope around his body and brought him to Callan where they made a kind of a scaffold and half-hanged him. The Protestant minister came to his aid, he was taken down and after some time he recovered but he was never after able to wear his boots laced.
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  2. There was a farmer living out in Ballymack long ago and he was a very poor-hearted man, when men used to work for him he'd only give them potatoes and sour milk for dinner.
    One Summer he had
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