School: Cillín
- Location:
- Killeen, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádraic Ó Hubáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0140, Page 564
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- Once while St. Joseph and the Blessed Virgin and Child Jesus were going hiding on Herods soldiers.
Herods soldiers came to a cross roads where they saw a cockroach and a wasp.
The soldiers asked the cockroach when did he see Jesus, and he said he saw him indé and the wasp said indiú.
- St. Joseph was a carpenter and Jesus was carpenter. The hen began to neb Jesus . The goose took him under her wing into the lake and that is why she is able to swim.
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- Informant
- Mrs Peter Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockaun, Co. Mayo
