School: Glascorn (roll number 16615)
- Location:
- Glascarn, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs Hope
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- (continued from previous page)had no name. A five shilling piece was called a crown and this coin is seldom seen now. There was also a coin worth four shillings and it is gone out of use now.
- My grandmother taught me this old prayer. She was taught it by her mother when she was a child. It is to be said before going to sleep.
"As here I lie on my bed to sleep
To God I give my soul to keep,
If any evil troubles me
O Blessed Virgin waken me."