School: Ballintemple
- Location:
- Ballintemple, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Nic Eoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0991, Page 219
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- One time there was a priest, and he was teaching a boy to say his prayers who had a lot of goats. The priest thought of a plan how to teach the boy, he named one goat "Our Father" and he a name on every goat and he told the boy to learn the prayer from the goats names.
The priest came next day and asked the boy how he was getting on with his prayers the boy said "I am getting on all right but, "Our Father" nearly tore the udder out of "they Kingdom Come."
- Collector
- Olive Cowan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Thomas Cowan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Aghaweely Upper, Co. Cavan
