School: Cathair Loisgreáin (B)
- Location:
- Caherlustraun, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádhraic de Chlár
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0022, Page 0423
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- (continued from previous page)"Muise Beannacht De le h-anamnaibh na marbh." Then he spied a small light going from the lone bush up into the air and that was a soul going from Purgatory to Heaven.
- A long time ago a man got married and soon his wife was taken by the good people but he thought she was dead. When he was coming home from a visit he had to pass through a big farm and he met his wife and she said to him "If you are sorry after me you will do just as I tell you and you will soon have me again. When you shall see me riding a grey horse you must fire a fist of yellow clay at me and I will fall off the horse. Do not stir me until I be there for day an hour and then you can take me home." The man obeyed his wife and when he went a hundred yards he saw a batch of horses and people riding them coming out a gap. He did what his wife told him and they both went home and lived very happily for a great number of years
