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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1003, Page 321

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    night time. The brother used to keep a close watch on her. Often he used to hear grand music outside the house. On these nights she would get furious to get away. At last she escaped and was away for another full year. Everyone in the parish believed that she was with the "Good People".
    At the end of another year she came back again - grandly dressed, laden with jewelery and money but never would she tell where she had been. She was restless and discontented and the brother decided that he would raise the money someway and pay her passage to America. He managed to do so and on the day appointed that she was to leave home, the brother and her-self set out, walking, to
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nellie O Reilly
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mrs Mary O Reilly
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Mullagh, Co. Cavan