School: Lucan (B.)
- Location:
- Leamhcán, Co. Bhaile Átha Cliath
- Teacher: M. Mac Rois
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0794, Page 355
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- (continued from previous page)the heartstone to show the way he went. And in the crack is the prayer book which the priest let drop into it. This room is now bricked up. And the house has now only three hundred an sixty four windows, whereas it had three hundred and sixty five. Mr Connolly who owned the ground on which the chapel is built ever after only asks a halfpenny a year rent, to show his thanks to the priest.
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- Collector
- John Byrne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Leamhcán, Co. Bhaile Átha Cliath
- An American who had come to Ireland was talking to an Irishman about how fast things were in America. "One day" he said "I let an apple drop from the top window of my hotel, and came down so fast in the lift that I had time to catch it before it reached the ground". "That's nothing" said the Irishman, "The trams in Dublin go so fast that their shadows have to take short cuts to keep up with them".
- One day two men were mending a roof when dinner time came, and one of them on the ground shouted to the other on the roof "Don't come down that ladder, I've taken it away"
