School: Portlaoighse (Convent) (roll number 13386)
- Location:
- Port Laoise, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Sr Treasa
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- (continued from previous page)into the well and there was a fish in the water. The next day the people were able to trace the mark of the fish to Cromogue and they said that fish went to Cromogue.
- When Saint Fintan died the people treated his horse very badly and Saint Fintan came back one day and changed the horse into a stone which is still to be seen in Mrs Dooley's field in Redcastle. The stone was lying flat on the ground in a square hole in the ground, field and and the people put it standing
- For arraciples flour was heated on the griddle and put to it with a bandage. For colds onions were roasted and eaten with butter.