School: Knocktopher (roll number 7033)
- Location:
- Derrynahinch, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Séamus Mac Éil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0848, Page 149
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- Once upon a time a school boy was caught out in a storm and he went into the church for shelter. He knew he would have to leave when the time came for closing the church so he hid in a confessional and fell asleep.
At mid-night a priest came out vested to say Mass. The priest turned around and asked "Is there anybody here to serve my Mass."
The boy came out of the confessional and served his Mass. When Mass was over the priest turned around and thanked him and told him he had come there for two hundred years waiting for someone to serve his Mass. He said it was a mass he had forgotten to say when on earth. He also said he could not go to rest.
- Collector
- Mary Thérésé Heaslip
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knocktopher, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mrs Heaslip
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knocktopher, Co. Kilkenny
