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School: Windgap (C.), Thomastown (roll number 5698)

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Windgap, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Bean Mhic Eóin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0851, Page 215

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    would be so many people going to it. There was a man who said he would stay there all night to be in for the morning.
    All was well until twelve o'clock until a priest came out on the altar and asked if there was anybody there to serve Mass for him.
    The man went up and served Mass for the priest. When the Mass was over the priest said to him
    "I have been here for fifty years looking for someone to serve Mass for me because I said one Mass badly during my life and I would never
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