School: Synge, Inagh (roll number 14440)

Location:
Glennageer, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Máirtín Flynn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0612, Page 385

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    Once upon a time there lived a very small man at the foot of Mount Callan. is height was four feet two inches. He was looking for a wife in Clare. He could not get a wife in Clare or Limerick so he went to Tipperary and he found one in Thurles. her height was six foot two inches. He became rich and very lucky and it was said he had six children all over six foot high. The man worked in Clare for about six or seven years. He dies when he was about one hundred and two years of age and
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