School: Gleann an Dúin - Prison (roll number 17042)
- Location:
- Prison East, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire A. Ní Dhocartaigh
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- (continued from previous page)that his grandfather dreamed one night that Mass was to be celebrated in a certain place next morning. He rose before dawn and went to the place which he saw in the vision and actually found the priest saying Mass there.
Some people who got sudden deaths were seen receiving the last Sacraments from an unknown hand.
- These were poor boys who went about from place to place in search of charity. They attended the hedge and even national schools. The master would send such a boy home with the pupil one night and with another on another night so on.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary A. O' Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Patsy Ausboro
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 84
- Address
- Tawnagh More, Co. Mayo
