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School: Rathnew

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Rathnew, Co. Wicklow
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D. Ó Drisceóil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0927, Page 006

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    The following story was told to me by my Grandfather, Michael Twambley Rathnew.
    There was a farmer in Killoughter who had two men working for him knocking down an old house.
    One of the men was from Rathnew and the other man was an ex-soldier.
    The farmer had built a new house and he told the men to take the grate out of the old house and put it in the new one, also the hearth stone.
    The two men had to get a bar to
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