School: Baltrasna (roll number 4086)

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   "There is a big stone over the door of the old monastery and St Fechin put it there and it can't be moved. there is a big hill beside the abbey called the hill of Benn and when Cromwell was going about knocking down all the big places, he went up on this big hill and threw a canon at the abbey and knocked it. There is a big lake one side of the abbey and the name of it is Lough Gloire and it is the shape of Ireland. Written by Eithne Kearney Baltrasna Oldcastle Co Meath. told by my mother

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2. Loughcrew

   

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   Loughcrew

   Loughcrew is a very beautiful place, it is also a very historical place. It is situated in County Meath about three and a half miles from Oldcastle. There is one mountain in Meath and it is in Loughcrew "Sliab na Cuilleach" is the highest peak. It was in Loughcrew that

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