School: Dunboyne (C.) (roll number 15917)
- Location:
- Dunboyne, Co. Meath
- Teachers: Seosaimhín Ní Chonmidhe Uná Frinse
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0689, Page 062
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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. - The priest had a servant boy who was dishonest. He used to take any money the housekeeper left about the house. One day she told the priest about him and the priest said he would cure him of the habit.
Next morning he left a half crown beside his breakfast plate and a slip of paper on which was written "Thou shalt not steal". When the boy came in he took the half crown, turned over the slip of paper and wrote "Lead us not into temptation". Told to Caith Dillon by her father - There was a priest living in the country and he got sick. He had no priest to take his place to say Mass on(continues on next page)
