School: Allenwood
- Location:
- Allenwood, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Seán Ó Clúmháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0774, Page 399
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- (continued from previous page)walking and it began to rain. He stood under a tree for shelter. It was the tree the man was buried under. The priest happened to look up & on every leaf he saw written "God only knows" The priest knew then that the people who had been saying the man was very wicked wronged the man and he had the corpse taken up & reburied in consecrated ground.
- Once there was a man dying & he sent his son & daughter for the priest. On the way they had to pass under a big whitethorn tree. A little man sitting on a bough began to play a fiddle. The boy & girl could not resist dancing & they kept dancing(continues on next page)
