School: Brannockstown (roll number 16817)
- Location:
- Baile na mBreatnach, Co. Chill Dara
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Dhubhthaigh
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- Long ago there was a clergy-man in Celbridge who told his flock that he could work miracles as well as the Catholic Clergy.
So he put a man up over the alter with straw and matches.
At service on Sunday he cried out three times each more earnestly than the one before it -:
"Lord send down burning straw"
"The straw is wet Minister Dick and it wont light for me" came an angry voice from above
- Collector
- Elizabeth Keenan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baile na mBreatnach, Co. Chill Dara
- Informant
- Mrs O' Hara
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baile Hanraí, Co. Chill Dara
- Once upon a time there lived a man named Abraham Muldoon of Celbridge. He went to Mass on Sunday and he had a parcel of black(continues on next page)
