School: Camross, Mountrath (roll number 15933)
- Location:
- Camross, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Heifearnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0827, Page 131
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“Long time ago there lived a very holy man in a little hut on a hill...”
(continued from previous page)himself for many years. When he was young he worked with a priest for four years. The pries was always telling this man to lover God and pray to him every time he would get the chance. After some time the priest died so he had to back and live in his hut again. This man went every day to pray under a little bush on the top of a hill. When he would be leaving it he would ring a bell three times.This man died soon after the priest so when he died the bell was heard ringing every day for five(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Matthew Collier
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrowreagh, Co. Laois