School: Bunlahy, Granard
- Location:
- Bunlahy, Co. Longford
- Teachers: Mrs Brady Cáit Bean Uí Bhrádaigh
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“Long ago when there would be a station in a house the people of the house would have a bottle of wine for the priest.”
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Long ago when there would be a station in a house the people of the house would have a bottle of wine for the priest.
In a certain house in the neighbourhood of Bunlahy they forgot to get the wine. The night before the station the master told the servant to be up early next morning and to go for the wine. The servant slept in the barn so the master gave him the money when he was going to bed.
He got up in the dead of the night and started for the wine. He didn't go far when he met a crowd on horseback. They asked him where he was going and he told them he was going for a bottle of wine. Come with us, says they, and we will get one for you.
He got up on a horse with one of them and started. They travelled on and on and at last they stopped and said to him, do you know where you are now. I do not, he said.(continues on next page)