School: Faythe (roll number 11361)
- Teacher: An tSr. Columcille
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- There was a man one time and he went to a place where holy statues were made. This man was a Protestant and he was going around looking at the statues when he saw a statue of the Blessed Virgin.
He took up a stone and fired it at the statue but when he did so a piece of the flew back and hit him in the eye and he was blind in one eye forever after
- Collector
- Phylis Whitty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Loch Garman, Co. Loch Garman
- Informant
- Mrs S. Whitty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Loch Garman, Co. Loch Garman
- In Johnstown there was a man married to a catholic woman. They had a chapel in the castle one day the man took a stone up and threw
it at a statue of the Blessed Virgin and a piece of the statue flew into
his eye and ever since that he was
blind in one eye. This room where the chapel was is kept for a lumber(continues on next page)
