School: St Patrick's, Aughnacliffe (roll number 13283)
- Location:
- Aghnacliff, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Dubhda
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0761, Page 249
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“Long ago in Ireland the people were very generous.”
Long ago in Ireland the people were very generous. They were better in those days than they are at the present day. The people of long ago had very nice prayers but I think they are all forgotton. When they were going to bed at night they all joined in and said the family Rosary and their night prayers and when they were lying down in bed at night their first prayer was. They blessed themselves and folder their arms in the shape of a cross. They examined their consciences and they said " O my God I must die". I do not know how, when or where but if I die in mortal sin I am lost for ever" Ah good Jesus have mercy on me. "Pardon me my sins and grant me a priest at my last end." Then they said an act of contrition. In the morning when they awoke they blessed(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seamus Mc Nerney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Aghnacliff, Co. Longford
- Informant
- John Mc Nerney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Aghakine, Co. Longford