School: Longueville, Malla (roll number 11332)
- Location:
- Longueville, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Caitlín Ní Dhonnchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0364, Page 239
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- About 150 years ago body snatchers inhabited this country. They would come at night, open the graves and steal the bodies away. Then they would sell the bodies to doctors for scientific purposes.When these people were around poor people used to walk to Cork with bags of wool on their backs.One day at this time a certain man was on his way to Cork with his bag of wool.When it got dark, he got up to a man who had a similar bag on his back.(continues on next page)
