School: Ballincor
- Location:
- Ballincor Demesne, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Mrs Julia Liffey
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0819, Page 204
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- (continued from previous page)a stone in the ditch. The horse came down on its knees on a stone breaking the minister's neck. The horse left the mark of his knees on the stone and it is still to be seen. People passing the place at night are afraid. Since that it has been called the Minister's Stone.
There is a story of a man named Pat Kennedy who was coming home from Birr one night drunk. When he went into his wife he said to her "Ah, I haven't long to live now. When I was coming home to night I saw the devil sitting on the Minister's stone and he shook his cloven foot at me." "Well avick she said, I would not be at all surprised.
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- Thomas White
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