School: Paulstown Convent (roll number 1915)
- Location:
- Baile Phóil, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: Mother Benignus
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0861, Page 372
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There was once an old man in Goresbridge named James Murphy, and one day as he was mowing with a scythe in a field a lady appeared to him and gave him a can of gold. He said he would go home for a bigger can, but when he came back the lady had disappeared and left the can full of leaves