Scoil: Tullistown (uimhir rolla 5751)

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1. My Home District (ar lean)

   

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   the Bishop was going on a sick call he lost the key of the Tabernacle and where he found it a well sprang up in that spot. Ever since then people with sore eyes toothache or sprained ankles go and bathe in it. There lived missionaries in the monastery and tradition tells us that they used to live on tithes which meant the tenth part of someone's share. If a farmer had ten cows one of them was theirs. One of the missionaries used to stand outside the monastery and when the people were passing to a fair or market he would collect the tenth part of everything they had. One day there was a man going to Fore with a load of ferkins of butter and fearing he would have to give any to the missionary he pretended he was asleep but the missioner said, "If your sleep be an honest one I hope it will be a happy one, but if it is a false one that you may never awaken", so the man slept until he died.
   The most common name in the district is about thirty families whose name is O Reilly. They are distingushed from each other by nick-names or the places where they dwell.
   The houses are very scarce in some of the

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   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Topaicí

   1. áit-spás-timpeallacht
      1. seanchas áitiúil, dinnseanchas (~10,595)

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   Julia Mac Dermott

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