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School: Camross, Mountrath (roll number 15933)

Location:
Camross, Co. Laois
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Heifearnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0827, Page 153

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    “There was once a man who was threshing with a flail.”

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    There was once a man who was threshing with a flail. A priest lived near this man and the day of the threshing the priest went to his house. He was praising his great threshing. He said he would thresh any body who would before him. The priest spoke words from a holy book and the devil appeared.The priest asked the man to thresh
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Denis Dooley
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Coolrain, Co. Laois