School: Effin (C.), Ráthluirc (roll number 8334)

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Effin, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Mrs A. Fitzgerad
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    to be married handles the fortune and in like manner it goes to some other farmer's son. There it is given to somebody else who is getting married and passes on to another until practically the whole parish is settled by means of the same fortune.
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    An Englishman trying to be witty met Paddy one day and said

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