School: Skerries (St. Patrick's : Boys) (roll number 16332)

Location:
Skerries, Co. Dublin
Teacher:
T. Mc Namee
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    Stories of the Holy Family.
    (Skerries, Co. Dublin.)
    Long ago when the Jews were looking for our Lord to crucify him they met an owl on the road. They asked if it had seen a man and a woman passing. The owl said: "Yes, I saw them passing about an hour ago." The Jews asked it where had they gone, and the owl answered "Cuaid siad isitg, an tríomad tig, a cara. But the Jews said "How are we to know which third house it is, because there are three rows of house with three houses in each row." The owl answered" You will know it because the house has a bush before the door." The owl can neither talk nor see now, because our Lord said to it:
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. narratives (~478)
        1. religious tales (~1,085)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Collector
    George Pratt
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Rush Road, Co. Dublin