School: Robinstown (roll number 9039)
- Location:
- Robinstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Teresa Coyne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0698, Page 329
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- I heard a story from a man about a cross that bowed to a battalion of soldiers who were marching along the road at Dunsany.
As the soldiers were marching past the cross in four deep it bowed to a certain four. The Officer in charge having a feeling that something mysterious was wrong, brought back the army and marched them past in two deep. The cross bowed to a certain two.
Then the Officer marched them in single file and the cross bowed to one particular man. The Officer questioned the man to his previous career.
The soldier said: He had been in a College preparing to be a priest, when he had a quarrel with the head priest, he left the College and joined the Army.
Then the Officer made a subscription among the other soldiers and sent the soldier back to College to study to become a priest.
- Informant
- Mr John Horan
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 78
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Bective, Co. Meath
