School: Camross, Mountrath
- Location:
- Camros, Co. Laoise
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Heifernáin
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“I shall never forget the day I was first...”
(continued from previous page)and all the patriotic songs of our land. Old Dan and Catherine were very fond of singing. I was coming home one night from the Rookery and and had to pass the Lime Kiln and I got a great fright, The hair stood straight on the top of my head and nearly pushed off my cap. But I started to whistle a tune and got off with a caution for that night. In a few nights after Johnny Brien saw a funeral passing that road at about twelve o'clock in the night and he got such a fright he did not go out for a month. But a few of the fearless sons around the place went out one night and captured something like a Lepracawn and threw him into the Lime Kiln and he was burned and put out for top - dressing so that no person was ever frightened at the Lime Kiln since.(no title)
“When the English were in Ireland there...”
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- Patrick Collier
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- 13
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- An Cheathrú Riabhach, Co. Laoise
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- Matt Collier
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- 47
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- An Cheathrú Riabhach, Co. Laoise