School: Naomh Muire, Droichead Átha (roll number 8052)
- Location:
- Droichead Átha, Co. Lú
- Teacher: Sr. M. Bernard Mc Cabe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0680, Page 237
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- There once lived during the Penal days in Ireland a poor man who always had a priest in his cottage when ever he saught hiding
The priest knew the man so well that he always raised the latch on the door and walked in. One night the priest found the man dying on the floor and had just time to give him the Last Sacraments.
If the man was not generous in hiding the priest he might have lost his soul.
- Collector
- Sheila Murray
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Sráid San Séamas, Co. Lú
- Informant
- Mr Murray
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Sráid San Séamas, Co. Lú
- During the Penal Days a priest was saying Mass on the hills of Wicklow. The English soldiers spied him and very soon had him arrested.
This priest was very young. Among his followers(continues on next page)
