School: Gort an Ghainimh (roll number 16127)
- Location:
- Gortaganny, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: M. Ó Cobhthaigh
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- (continued from previous page)the coat on the sun-beam it fell to the ground and never would rest on the sun-beam anymore. In olden times the people would not come to Mass if the Priest said anything to them. If the priest would not let them because they could not pay the money they would not come to that Church anymore. If the priest was talking about politics they used tell him that they knew more about that than he did and they used go home. One day a man was reading a rent paper and all the men around him and the priest came up and tried to tear it. The man began arguing about it. The priest told the man that he would be glad to see a priest before he died, and the man died with a priest.
Long ago punishments were put on people and priests for their sins. This is a story I heard from Thomas(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Norah Kenny
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloondart, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Thomas Lynch
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloondart, Co. Roscommon
