School: Scoil an Chlochair, Bunclody
- Location:
- Bunclody, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Na Siúracha
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - 1. In the penal days were pickets looking to see if the enemy was coming. It is said that the people who remain outside the church door are supposed to have got that habit from the pickets.
2. An old woman gave up hearing Mass one time. She did not believe that Christ was present in the Blessed Sacrament. A neighbouring woman took her to Mass one morning. When the priest was raising up the Sacred Host she looked up and saw the Child Jesus in the priests hands and she cried out "Do not let the Child fall". She always had great belief in the Mass after that.
3. There was an old woman once and for every Mass she heard she put a stone in a box. When she went to the box she found only one stone in the box. The reason is believed to be because she heard one and the same Mass, but several times over.
4. There was a Mass-bell found in a river in(continues on next page)
