Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 1)

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1. Father James Robinson, P.P. (continued)

   

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   design, finish & colour-scheme. It turned out (when won) to be a creeping "clock" (=a ciaróg). But I think the principle items were the half-barrel & the dance wh. followed. There were 3 raffles on the first Sunday the new curate spend with us. (1) one in Ballyloo 2 miles to (2) South Gráig na Spideog 2 miles east of Ballyloo (3) in Palatine 5 miles north of the parochial house on the borders of Kildare. The new curate attended all three & broke the 3 half-barrels, dispersed the crowds & carried home the 3 melodians. He was the most determined "pussy-foot" that "ever wore the collar" yet he was after words silenced for excessive drinking and died as an incumbrance on a Protestant family very near his own home! Father James died. He was waked in his vestments, I remember. At his own request he was burried outside the chapel in front of the door - the first priest that was burried outside (about 1904). His sister, Miss Annie Robinson, most gentle and saintly of ladies went home to Co. Kildare.

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2. The Black Ghost

   

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   Some six months in the late spring of 1905 our parish was electrified by the appearance of the "black ghost" A sombre figure draped in sable, that sped the roads along without a sound. Dozens of people met it at night somebody passing the chapel late one night was horrified to see the ghost hovering over Father Robinson's grave. Some

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