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School: Carn (roll number 12537)

Location:
Knocknashammer, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Mícheál Ó Miadhaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0187, Page 215

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    had given communion to the father and mother, the child took the host and then spat it out on the rail cloth. The father thought for a while and then said to the priest that he had sent him to a Protestant school in Ireland while he came to France to make a living and he had left a nurse in charge of him.
    Then the priest said to the father " the nurse must have sent him to a Protestant Church". So she did. Then the child had to be baptised.
    Another story is told of a woman who was in jail for having drowned her two months old son in a lake near Kilkelly
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. narratives (~478)
        1. religious tales (~1,085)
    2. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. penal times (~4,335)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Gerard Kilcoyne
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Gorteen, Co. Sligo
    Informant
    Mrs Mc Nulty
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    73
    Address
    Gorteen, Co. Sligo