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School: Drumconrath (B.) (roll number 16143)

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Drumcondra, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Patrick Cassidy
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    he wanted those haws! when the other man heard those words he returned home and never went to pull haws in a fort again. it is said that it is unlucky to interfere with anything growing in a fort.
    10-11-37
    One time a tailor was working in a house.One night the woman of the house went out to milk, leaving the child in the pram.When the woman went out the child began to play pipes that were in the house.
    When the woman returned the tailor told her what the child done, and he said that it was not her own child.Then the tailor told her to put the child
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