School: Presentation Convent, Lucan
- Location:
- Lucan, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: Sr Gabriel
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0793, Page 314
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - Doctor Stoney was the Lucan doctor about fifty years ago. He never listened to the people's complaints. He was considered a very fussy man and people often laughed about the way he treated patients who went to him. He would say when the people went to him "Come in, come on, put out your tongue, here's a bottle take it". This was said to everyone and was said all in one breath.
Before him was Doctor Watson. He was a good man and looked after his people well. But the very old people never cared for doctors. They preferred to pray and put their
