School: Monknewton (roll number 9696)
- Location:
- Monknewtown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Maighréad Ní Mhurchadha
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- (continued from previous page)said she would count how many Masses she had heard and to her great surprise she only found on bean in the box. That was the day she was a little late for Mass, but she heard Mass right. Every other day she was looking round her and not praying.
She also told me the following religious story -:
A woman and her son were going to Mass and Holy Communion one Sunday on their trap. The woman said to her son to "pull over the trap to the ditch until she got a blackberry to eat."
He said to her "arent you going" to Holy Communion. She made him pull it over and she eat the blackberry. When she had it(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maureen Hand
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballinacrad, Co. Meath
