School: Carraigíní (roll number 11693)
- Location:
- Carrigans Lower, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Thos. Mc Gettrick
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0184, Page 0216
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- This is a prayer which never came from a book. This prayer has to be said going to bed.
"In the name of Our Lord Jesus Christ crucified
I lay me down to rest, bless me O Lord, defend and govern me that after this short and miserable pilgrimage, bring me to the everlasting life Amen."
That prayer was never learned in school or never came from a book. It was an old woman about 80 years that used say this every night. I do not know her name.
- An old woman that was living in an old barn in my(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rosie Scanlon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrigans Lower, Co. Sligo
