School: Creganbane (roll number 14079)

Location:
Cregganbaun, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Dáithí Mag Réill
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  1. There was once a man and he made a new house. But when he had it ready for living in and had all changed out of the old house the first night they went to sleep in the new house just when they quenced the light. They could not sleep night the rattling and hammering that was in the kitchen and in all the other rooms. They heard the same thing every night for a week. Then they had to leave ther new They could stand the hammering no loner. So they had to go
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