School: Cluain Meacan (roll number 11451)
- Location:
- Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Liam Ó Catháin
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“There was once a priest; that lived in Kilbaha.”
There was once a priest; that lived in Kilbaha. It happened one night that he had to go on a sick call. He had not gone far from his residence when he was passing a fort. The music and singing was so delightful and he had never heard anything so beautiful in his whole life. He stopped his horse, to listen to it. He was not long stopped, when a tall ugly looking woman walked out to him. She laid her hand on his and she spoke to him. After a while he went ahead with his horse. The priests at that time had no such things as motors. When he arrived at the house, the person was dead. The following morning his hand was slung up. He went to several doctors but none of them could do any good for him. It was then he knew what had happened. The song he was listening to, was cursed, and the woman that had laid her hand on his, was a witch also. He died shortly afterwards.
- Informant
- John Donegan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 59
- Address
- Knockane, Co. Kerry