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School: Baile an Bhile (C.) (roll number 15488)

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Ballinvilla Demesne, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Bríd Nic Giollachlaoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0110, Page 290

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    for safety.
    But one of the women amongst them was afraid of the sea and she said that she would go to confession first.
    She went to one of the secular clergy but he said that eh would not give her Absolution for her sins.
    She then went to one of the friar at Ballinsmale Claremorris and he told her to go to the Black Friar of Mayo Abbey.
    She went to him and when she told him her sins, his black
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    History Edit
    Folktales index
    AT0753: Christ and the Smith
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary D. Finn
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Patrick Finn
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cuiltycreaghan, Co. Mayo