School: An Clochar, Béal an Átha Móir (roll number 13614)
- Location:
- Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: An tSr. Áthracht
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0224, Page 381
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- (continued from previous page)considerable time, he told him he had got a shock from an evil spirit,. The priest killed the power of the evil spirit, and the man got as well as ever.
- A Funny StoryThere was a Protestant family one time and they had a big feast on a Sunday for their friends. They had a Catholic work man, working for them, and when he came home from Mass they asked him to show them what the Priest used to do and how used he say Mass.The boy told them to get a table and a white cloth to spread over it. They had a bit pot of meat and soup on the fire, and the boy asked them to give him a white - washing brush and the pot of soup and that he would show them what the Priest used to do at Mass, so they did so thinking, they would have great fun looking at what the Priest used to do at Mass.The boy took the brush and dipped it into the pot of boiling soup and spraged the face, neck and hands of them till he scaulded some of them to death. Instead of making fun of the Catholics he made the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Darcy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Oughteragh, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Thomas Mc Goohan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 69
