School: Drinagh (roll number 10664)
- Location:
- Drinagh, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Pilib Ó Cróinín
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- About thirty years ago there was a man in Kenmare who boasted that he was not afraid to sleep in a graveyard. Another man challenged him that he also would sleep in a graveyard.
So the two men settled a certain night to sleep in Kenmare graveyard. The man who boasted first was the first man who went to sleep in the graveyard. They put down a bet of three pints of porter. The man went into the graveyard and he was watched by the other man.(continues on next page)
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- Michael Sullivan
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