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School: Mercy Convent, Granard (roll number 13846)

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    A Religious Story
    1st June, 1938.
    There is a man who lived in the parish of Scrabby, Co. Longford who ceased attending Mass because he differed with the parish priest.
    This man's father and mother went to live in another parish, and they brought everything within and without belonging to the house with them. This man left this on the parish priest as he did not seem to be against his father and mother in doing it. The parish priest came to the man a couple of days after his parents departing and the man told him that he had no right to deprive him of his means of a livelihood and that he had not his
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. narratives (~478)
        1. religious tales (~1,085)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Dawson
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    16
    Address
    Carrickduff, Co. Longford
    Informant
    Mrs Mary Dawson
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    45
    Address
    Carrickduff, Co. Longford