School: Clochar na Trócaire, Dún Drongáin (roll number 7232)
- Location:
- Drangan, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Siúracha na Trócaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0557, Page 045
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“There was a man living in the Penal days who happened to be walking along the road one very wet day”
(continued from previous page)one very wet day when a priest passed by him on horse-back. There were floods on the road.When the man came to the first flood the priest was stopped there. The priest told him that it was impossible for him to cross the flood because his horse wouldn't cross it. He also said that he was in a hurry as a woman was dying. The man immediately offered to carry the priest across. The priest was delighted and told him that he wouldn't die without a priest.A few years after, this man got injured in a battle and was slowly dying. He was dying there with nobody minding him when he thought of the priest's prophecy, and at that minute who did he see coming up the field only the priest that he carried across the flood. The priest heard his confession and the man died happily in the priests arms after(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mr Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clonlahy, Co. Tipperary