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School: Gleann Gort, Caisleán Nua Thiar (roll number 7329)

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Glengort South, Co. Limerick
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Treasa, Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
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    “About a quarter of a mile to the north of a well, there is a wood.”

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    About a quarter of a mile to the north of a well, there is a wood. At the corner of the wood there is a river and there is a hole in the river for washing clothes. There is to be a person bittling clothes almost until morning. At last the people came to see what was going on and found it was a servant girl of the place that used to get up in her sleep and put her tub of clothes on her head and walk off to the river and
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kitty Doody
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Toornafulla, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    John Fitzgerald
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60