School: Coillte Críotáin

Location:
Erris, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Nóra Nic Aodhgáin

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2. There are not many stories in my district concerning priests or masses. Here is one.
I heard of two girls who laughed at the priest because he had a whisker and they never saw a priest with a whisker before. The priest knew what they were laughing at and he put a curse on them and before a month the two girls died.

Collector
Mary Tivenan
Gender
female
Address
Cornaglia, Co. Roscommon
Language
English

3. Stories are still told in my district about the Mass and here is one of them. There was a man living in

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