School: Landsdowne (Cuar na gCoileach) (roll number 6091)
- Location:
- Coornagillagh, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Eibhlín, Bean Uí Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0463, Page 374
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“Long ago there were no motor cars and on horseback travelling to a distance was done.”
(continued from previous page)did he see this woman?
No, he said.
The Priest went upstairs and after searching for her, he found her in a hole and he brought her down and made her tell her business to the card-players present. Then she had to say that she was unable to go into the first house because the man of the house was playing the Jew's Harp and he used go to the door and spit out. The woman of teh second house was saying the Rosary and that put her to flight there.
So she went to the third house where she them cardplaying & she planned to put two of them fighting about the cards in order that when the fory man and the dark one(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Shiela Browne
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Doyle
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glaninchiquin, Co. Kerry