School: Currans (C.) (roll number 4460)
- Location:
- Currans, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Nóra, Bean Uí Bhraoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0445, Page 043
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“Once two men were coming home from a funeral and they were after going on a short way in it.”
(continued from previous page)funeral and they were after going a short way in it.
One of the mens' sisters that was dead and they met her going around the long way.
It is not right to take a short cut in a funeral.Told to Mary O'Sullivan
by Ulick O'Sullivan, Cragy, Currens,
(age 40 yrs)
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“Once a nun's father died and he was a very holy man.”
Once a nun's father died and he was a very holy man. When he died one night the nun saw the light in the wall and she went to it and she saw her father in the light and he told her that he had to spend three months in purgatory for sins of impatience and that she would have to suffer alot for him and she told him she would. She had to suffer(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mary O' Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John O' Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 46
- Address
- Farrandoctor, Co. Kerry