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School: Achadh Fobhair (roll number 13853)

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Aghagower, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Hannah T. Kevilla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0088E, Page 02_024

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    her. When she told her the little woman said to her "if you bathe in a certain pool I will show you you will become as beautiful as ever. If you want to change your brothers back again you must pull nettles out of the graveyard at midnight every night and pound them into pulp with your bare feet and make seven shirts out of them you can save your brothers. But you must not speak a word until you have them finished". She went away then and the girl bathed herself in the pool the woman had shown her and she regained her beauty again. Then she set to work pulling and weaving and making the shirts out of nettles. She was staying in a little hut in the wood. One day a young prince found her and he asked her what she was
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Agnes Noonan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tawnagh, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mrs Noonan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tawnagh, Co. Mayo