School: Durrow (B.) (roll number 3517)

Location:
Durrow, Co. Laois
Teacher:
P. Sabhaois

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That night the Monk had a dream. In his dream he saw St. Michael and the Devil with a scales and weights. St. Michael could not get enough of weights to weigh down the Devil. Then St. Michael went away and returned with a bundle of straw and it weighed down the Devil's weights. The next morning when the Monk awoke he went into the kitchen and he saw the woman crying. He asked her what was wrong and she said her husband was dead. He told her not to be afraid because the bundle of straw won a place for him in Heaven.

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There was a certain man one time and he had two cows.

I heard the following story from my father John Wall who lives at Derry Rd Durrow.
There was a certain man one time and he had two cows. Every day a hare used to come and suck the milk from the cows. This day the man set two greyhounds after it, and they kept after the hare until they came to a house. When the hare

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Collector
Cathal Wall
Gender
male
Age
12
Address
Durrow, Co. Laois
Informant
John Wall
Relation
parent
Gender
male
Address
Durrow, Co. Laois
Language
English