School: Tuar Árd, Áth Treasna (roll number 8893)

Location:
Toorard, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Éamonn Ó Domhnaill
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  2. I was told that a certain farmer had a passage leading to his house and he wished to put a gate at the end of the passage. He bought a new gate for it. he hung the gate and the following morning the gate was lying on the other side of the road, and he hung the gate again and during the night it was taken off the hinges. Now the farmer hung the gate again and he went and told it to the guards. Two guards came and watched there all night but one time they walked a little was beyond the gate and
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