School: Drinagh (roll number 10664)
- Location:
- Drinagh, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Pilib Ó Cróinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0462C, Page 12_008
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- Long ago there lived a man who used to be out late every night gambling. He was coming home one night and he met a crowd of men, carrying a corpse.
They told him to stop and carry the corpse. He said he would not. One of them followed him and stopped him. They told him if he had not the corpse buried before twelve o'clock he would be one himself.
He went off to bury it. He went in to a church, and he began digging and a man arose and told(continues on next page)
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- Kattie Lyne
- Gender
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