School: Lismacaffry
- Location:
- Lismacaffry, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Ml. Ó Gamhna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0739, Page 382
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- Long ago there lived a woman in this parish and there is a story told about her. She used to hardly ever go to mass. The parish priest forced her to go to mass, and to get a box and put in a stone into it every time she would go to mass. She did what the priest told her and he also told her that God would tell her before she would die how many stones there were in the box. So when her time was ended on this earth God told her(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Christy Newman
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 57
- Address
- Coolnagun, Co. Westmeath
