School: Loughagar (roll number 5696)
- Location:
- Loughagar More, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Énrí Mac an Abba
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- Mrs Gaffney
- Gender
- Female
- Once upon a time a man lived up near (dromond) Dromond he was very lazy.
Every night when he went to bed he brought up a shoval with him. When he would (wakin) waken in the morning he would let down the window and stick out the shoval, if any drops were on the shoval he would think it raining.
If the day was fine he would(continues on next page)