School: Punt Abhann (Pontoon)
- Location:
- Tawnaghmore, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Anastasia Ní Chonaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0147, Page 416
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- Long ago there was a woman who was praying in a church, it was in the evening and the clerk did not see her so he closed all the church doors. The woman was left along. During the night a priest she know who had died years beforhand appeared. The priest asked if there was anyone to serve Mass for him, the woman was afraid and she did not say a word.
Next day she told what she saw to the parish priest. She and the priest went to the church the next night.
The priest appear[ed](continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Bourke
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tawnaghmore, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Clarke
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Tawnaghmore, Co. Mayo
