School: Paulstown (B.) (roll number 8244)
- Location:
- Paulstown, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Conaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0862, Page 112
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- (continued from previous page)and the man said "Oh! I hear him coming" The priest began to read again. He stopped the second time and asked him the same question and got the same answer. The third time he asked him, the man said "He is up against me, he is up against me". The priest read again for a while and after this he saw the devil engraged at losing its prey and in anger he took a tree in its mouth which immediately took fire and off with him in the direction of Gowran. Everyone thought it was the moon that was rising and the man never stayed out late after that.
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