School: An Corr Dubh (roll number 14339)
- Location:
- Corduff, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Pádraig Mac Giolla'n Átha
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- (continued from previous page)see by his gait that he was an athlete.
By trade he was a shoe maker and went from house to house with his tools and worked at his trade. He never married. One time when he was about thirty years of age he was working in a house in the town-land of Aughavas near the old chapel. On a Sunday morning the priest Father O'Farrell came to the house where Michael O'Farrell was staying and called him out and said "Michael, I'm in an awful predicament, it is now 10:30. I have no Altar wine. No Catholic neighbour has a horse or knows how t o ride one. Mohill is the nearest place where it can be got; it is nine miles away. I must start Mass before 12 noon. You are my only help" "All right father", said Michael. "No trouble to me with the help of God". In five minutes Michael was off that is at 10:35. Father O'Farrell then went back to his house. Soon he was out again and of course was looking towards the West.
At 11:50 the priest recognised the big frame of Michael passing group after group of the mass people coming(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mr H. Kilkenny
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 61
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Miltron Glebe, Co. Leitrim
