School: Rath (roll number 5391)
- Location:
- Rath, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Miss Palmer
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0739, Page 110
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- About five miles from here there is a little village called Ballinalack. There was a family living there who used to keep a tailor in the house.
In the house was a small boy who was two years old. Whenever his mother went out he used to take a pipe from the cradle and play it.
His mother looked for the pipes but she could find none. One day a strange priest came in and she told him about the baby.
He told her to go to(continues on next page)
- Informant
- John Peppard
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 51
- Address
- Ballinalack, Co. Westmeath
