School: Faltia

Location:
Faltia, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Thomas Quinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0273, Page 245

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  1. There are some tales told about the Mass in the district. St. Kieran got the churches erected in Clonmacnoise and it is called seven churches. The Danes came and plundered it and they took the bell out of it and they threw it into the Shannon and that bell rings every seven years.
    There was one time a priest's girl and she used to go to Mass every morning to see how many Masses she would have attended. When she was very old she looked in the box and there was only one stone in it. It seems that she heard only one Mass rightly. Some people would be in time for Mass and more would not.
    The people that would be the fardest away would be in time, and them that would be the nearst would be late. The people would not ask questions of the priest during Mass. One time a man went out to reap his corn and
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    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. penal times (~4,335)
    2. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    May Mulvey
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Clooniff, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    Martin Mulvey
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Address
    Clooniff, Co. Roscommon