Volume: CBÉ 0485 (Part 2)
- Date
- 1938
- Collector
- Location
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0485, Page 0252
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- (continued from previous page)wife and children were dying the slow death of starvation.
- A priest attached to the Parish of Castlerea was carrying the Blessed Sacrament to a woman living in the Village of Tarmon and made a short cut through the demesne to the house where the woman lay dying. On his way through the demesne the priest was accosted by Sandford who used insulting language towards the priest and tried to prevent him pass. The priest got angry, cursed the "Sandford Family", saying, "That within a certain number of years there would not be a man of the name "Sandford" living in the town of Castlerea."
From that day forward the 'Hall Door' of Sandford's Castle(continues on next page)