Volume: CBÉ 0460 (Part 1)

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1. A Tale from Bannow, Co. Wexford (continued)

   

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   were to happen you or the wife, which God forbid, but if it did happen that something did happen you what knid of a girl would your daughter be to face the world. She would know no more than a girl of six or seven years of age. I will tell you what I will do now I will go down to your house some night and have a talk with the girl herself, and find out how she stands as regards her faith and all." The father listened away very attentively to the priest and said that he was only doing his best for the girl and said also that he would only be delighted if the priest came down. So they parted at that and the priest came along to the girls house a few nights after that and the people of the house did their best to make him comfortable. The priest had never been in the house before a nd that was the reason they were so shy and nervous of him He saw the state they were in and

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   History Edit

   Date

   10 January 1938

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Gaelic script

   Informant

   • Seán Dake