School: An Clochar, Cara Droma Ruisc
- Location:
- Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim / Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: An tSr. Emerentia
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- (continued from previous page)tain time she found there was only one half-penny in the box.
- Mr Reilly Main Street Carrick told me of a woman named Maggie Mc Gee. Every time she went to Mass she put a half-penny into an old tin box which she kept at home.
After fifty Sundays she opened the box expecting to find fifty half-pennies. She got a surprise for there was only one half-penny, because there was only one Mass heard properly.- Collector
- Frances O' Callaghan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim / Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mr Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim / Co. Roscommon
- There is a little man residing near Ballinamore who is supposed to be dwindling for years and is now only the size of a statue. Many requests have been obtained through his intercession.