School: Shanagolden (B.) (roll number 3786)
- Location:
- Shanagolden, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Loingsigh
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- (continued from previous page)but the devil. He said, "You will have to come with me this time". The tinker asked him time to say a Pater and Ave. When the tinker got this opportunity of escaping, he would not say the prayer. When he got home he had to get sponsors for his new baby. The first person he met was an anger, and he released. him. Secondly he met the devil and he treated him likewise. Then he met a poor man, and he allowed him to pass also, and soon after that he heard an awful noise in his garden, and it was a poor soul who never said a Pater ave when he was in this world. He asked the tinker to say it for him, and the tinker did so. Immediately the devil appeared and carried him off. When he went to heaven, God would not take him in, because he refused his servant to be a sponsor. When he(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Aidan O Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Nora O Sullivan
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Shanagolden, Co. Limerick
