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School: Brannockstown (roll number 16817)

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Brannockstown, Co. Kildare
Teacher:
Máiréad Ní Dhubhthaigh
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    Long ago there was a clergy-man in Celbridge who told his flock that he could work miracles as well as the Catholic Clergy.
    So he put a man up over the alter with straw and matches.
    At service on Sunday he cried out three times each more earnestly than the one before it -:
    "Lord send down burning straw"
    "The straw is wet Minister Dick and it wont light for me" came an angry voice from above
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    Folktales index
    AT1833: Application of the Sermon
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Elizabeth Keenan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Brannockstown, Co. Kildare
    Informant
    Mrs O' Hara
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Harristown, Co. Kildare

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    Once upon a time there lived a man named Abraham Muldoon of Celbridge. He went to Mass on Sunday and he had a parcel of black
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