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School: Kilmacoo, Avoca

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Kilmacoo, Co. Wicklow
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Bean Uí Chosgair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0925, Page 337

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    ever since.
    The other explanation about it "is that big men in early days pitched quoits from Tara Hill in Gorey to the Motto Stone in Cronebane. One of these is said to have struck the stone and split it and hence it is called Split Stone or Motto Stone because these men aimed at it.
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      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
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