School: Edenagully
- Location:
- Edennagully, Co. an Chabháin
- Teachers: S. Ó Cléirigh C. Ó Baoighealláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1007, Page 316
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- There was once a woman who in order to obtain a favour vowed to hear a great number of masses in the year. She put a small stone in a box every day to keep an account of the masses. At the end of the year she opened the box and to her great surprise she had only one stone in the box. She went to the priest and told. [?] he asked her was she in the habit of talking in the church during mass and she said she was. So he told her she only heard mass once without talking during the year.
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- Eileen Owens
- Gender
- Female
- Incline O Lord, Thine ear to our prayers in which we humbly beseech Thy mercy that Thou wouldst place the soul of Thy servant which Thou hast caused to depart from this world into the reign of peace and light and unite in the fellowship of Thy saints, through Christ Our Lord. Amen
For a woman deceased
We beseech Thee O Lord and in Thy mercy to have pity on the soul of Thy hand(continues on next page)
