School: Drom Bhaoghalláin (roll number 7981)
- Location:
- Ardcarn, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: M. Pagnam
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An old story.Once upon a time a man was building a house and he had to go ten miles for sand. One morning he said he would go two journeys so he started at four o'clock in the morning. When he was half way the wheel came off the cart. He looked around and he saw a man kneeling by a wall and he asked him to help to put on the wheel on the cart. The man said he was doing penance there and that they used not help him in their prayers at night and that he would not help him now.The man said three Hail Marys in his mind and when he looked around him the wheel was on the cart so the the man continued his journey. This man never forgot the poor souls in his prayers afterwards.Eileen O'Brien.
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- Eileen O' Brien
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- Female
