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School: Áthán (B.), Lios na Groighe (roll number 14173)

Location:
Ahane, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Seán Ó Héalaithe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0523, Page 448

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    One morning there were children going to school. When they were going out a gap they saw a small man standing at the side of the ditch.
    They went away and said nothing and when they came to the same gap the next morning he was there again but they said nothing to him.
    The third morning he was there too and the asked him the time and he said 9 o clock.
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    Once upon a time there was a man working at Burks in Thornfield. This man did something out of the way and when he new he had done he went out the a tree and got a rope and hanged himself. This mans name
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