School: Ballylongford (B.) (roll number 11018)
- Location:
- Ballylongford, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Seán Mac Cárthaigh
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- (continued from previous page)a number of small holdings. The owner's name was James Scanlon.
- 14-6-'38
There is nothing as pleasant or as interesting as to hear the old seancuide telling a story by the fire on a Winter's night. This is a story which was told to me by an old man last Winter. There was an old house where the present house owned by David Walsh is now which was owned by William Hegarty. He had six sons and one of them named John was a drunkard.
There was a funeral one day in the Abbey and this boy kicked the skull of a man and he said that that fellow had fine bones. He came in from the Abbey that evening and he went in home. That night the father and mother and sons were sitting near the fire. The door opened and a strange man came in. The father told him to sit down but he said he would not. "I want to see your son John a while and I'll bring him back safely again". He accompanied the boy out to the Abbey and there was a big white house built in the centre of the Abbey and there were steps going down to it. "Don't you remember the skull you kicked in this Abbey to day well that was my(continues on next page)
