School: Landsdowne (Cuar na gCoileach) (roll number 6091)
- Location:
- Cuar na gCoileach, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: Eibhlín, Bean Uí Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0463, Page 390
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“Long long ago there lived a woman whose habit was each evening to go to the Church, to say some prayers.”
(continued from previous page)sacristy again. Next day she told the Priest all that she saw so he said he would wait up the following night to see what would happen. And as he did & the same thing occurred again as the woman described, the man asking 3 times "Is there anybody there to answer my mass.
The live Priest asked him what was the reason of this? and he told him that while he was living & had been a Parish Priest he had received some money to say Mass for some certain person, which he forgot to say & that he was coming there 15 years getting no response to his question "Is there anybody there to answer my mass" & he could not go to heaven till he had that Mass said & then the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen O' Shea
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cluain Í, Co. Chiarraí
- Informant
- James O' Shea
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cluain Í, Co. Chiarraí