School: Coralstown (roll number 1314)
- Location:
- Correllstown, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: P. Ó Beóláin
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- (continued from previous page)not dead. "Sure you dont know better than the doctor" said the rake who put him down and got his ten shillings.
- Mary Whelehan an aunt of Paddy Moran was at service with my great Grand Father about ninty years ago. At that time people used to fast very hard during lent. This girl started her fast on Holy Thursday, planted potatoes on good Friday and Holy Saturday and went to Mass fasting on Easter Sunday morning.My father heard his grandfather, the witness tell Father Fitzsimons about it and he said he was not a bit surprised that God would give strength to any one with such faith.
- Collector
- Mary Egan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Correllstown, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Philip Geraghty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballinla, Co. Westmeath
