School: Loughagar (roll number 5696)
- Location:
- Loughagar More, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Énrí Mac an Abba
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0737, Page 422
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“The year after the famine there was a covetous old man named Brady who lived in Ballynagall.”
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“There was a man out early one morning airing horses in Rathconnell.”
There was a man out early one morning airing horses in Rathconnell. He went out on a gap and found two women winding yarn. They were so much frightened that they ran away and left the yarn. The man took it home with him and the next time he churned the lid was bursting off the churn with all the butter. He told the priest about it and the priest told him to divide the butter among all the people around and so he did and the next time he churned the(continues on next page)