School: Ballyheaffy (B.), Baile Dubh (roll number 10387)
- Location:
- Ballyeafy, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Néill
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0634, Page 148
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Ballyheaffy (B.), Baile Dubh
- XML Page 148
- XML “Local Prayers”
- XML “Local Prayers”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)[-]
- Going to bed say :
"Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
Bless the bed that I lay on"When in the bed say :
"I lay my body down to sleep
I give my soul to God to keep
Wake now and wake never
I give my soul to God foreverThere are four corners in my bed
There are four angels overhead
One to guard, two to guide
And one to watch me through the night. Amen.An act of homage to God and to his Blessed Mother :
To God we pray both night and day
To have us in his keeping(continues on next page) - Collector
- Donal Buckley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gortnaskehy, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Patrick Buckley
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 41
- Address
- Gortnaskehy, Co. Cork
