Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 1)
- Date
- 1937
- Collector
- Locations
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0407, Page 0074
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- (continued from previous page)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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