School: Bansha (B.) (roll number 11964)

Location:
Bansha, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Peter Horgan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0575, Page 177

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  4. XML “A Story about a Well”

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  2. Long ago, the well near Tuohys was at the right hand side of the road as you go to Tipperary but now it is at the left side. This is how it changed. People when going to Tipperary long ago with gallons of milk, in order to keep the cloths clean and cool that covered the milk they washed them as they were going to Tipperary in roadside streams. One Summers day a woman was passing with milk, and she washed the piece of cloth in the well near Tuohys. That night at about twelve o clock people heard something screaming. Next morning they ran over to see was it someone who was
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