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School: Newtown (roll number 3275)

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Creevagh, Co. Meath
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Séamus Ó Conbháidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0712, Page 271

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    There lived in this parish a man named John Reilly. He used to follow the Meath hounds not on a horse but running after them.
    At Bellewstown Co Meath about eighteen miles from this parish, there used to be three days' hunting. Reilly would run to to Bellewstown to the hunt and come home at night every day. He was able to keep up with the horses and he would always be there for the kill. He used to be called the Runner Reilly
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