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School: Dalystown (roll number 15307)

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    washed and nicely done up and when they looked at it they were surprised and they did not know what to do.
    One of them was Bartly Low and he went in and walked up to the alter and said "the devil set me blind" and so he did and they had to lead him out.
    The priest-hunter was going home and followed him and followed him and they caught him at long last and brought him of to a big tall tree at New Forest and tied him to it with a strong rope and his sister was working in a house near by and she saw him tied to the tree and he begged her to cut
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nancy O' Brien
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Clonfad, Co. Westmeath
    Informant
    Michael Munroe
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Clonyhague, Co. Westmeath