School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceannanus Mór
- Location:
- Kells, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Siúracha na Trócaire
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceannanus Mór
- XML Page 052
- XML “A Collection of Prayers”
- XML “Prayers”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)4. Another prayer you say when you are getting into bed:-
I lay my body down to sleep,
I pray to God my soul to keep,
In any evil troubles me,
I pray to the blessed Virgin to waken me,
Whether I waken now or ever,
Jesus keep my soul for ever.
5. When the old people were going to bed they used to say.
As I go to my bed,
As I go to my grave,
Begging of God my soul to resave. (receive). - Long ago, the old people used to say a lot of prayers of their own while they were on a journey going to bed, getting up in the morning, while lighting the fire, and other times of the day.
When they were going for a walk they used to bless themselves and say "God save me from all(continues on next page)- Collector
- Sheila Costello
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12