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School: Paulstown (B.) (roll number 8244)

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Paulstown, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Máirtín Ó Conaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0862, Page 126

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    hunger. Then he told some man to send for a coffin to bury him alive that he would live no longer. Then he was buried alive. When he was buried a man appeared and he offered a bag of meal if he would arise out of the coffin. He refused to take it. Then he was brought to the burial place and he was buried in the graveyard at Glasnevin, Dublin.
    He was about forty years of age at the time. It happened about sixty years of age.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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