School: Lubhghortán (Lowertown), Scoil Mhuire (roll number 4172)

Location:
Lowertown, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Mhathúna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0289, Page 429

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  2. Where Mr O'Donovan lives in Schull now there once lived a man called Mr O Sullivan. On Sunday he always wore a blue suit and a white shirt. The man died and sometime after his wife who was poor sold his coat. One evening when it was getting dark a woman next door named Mrs Goggin was spreading clothes on a tree and when she turned round the man was standing behind her wearing a blue pants and vest and a white shirt. She got a fright because she knew him. The man did not speak but disappeared at once. When she
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