Volume: CBÉ 0406 (Part 2)
- Date
- 1937
- Collector
- Location
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0406, Page 0039
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“Wherever a person commits a sin...”
(continued from previous page)be going to bed, and they'd leave the chairs arranged
around the fire, and have the fireplace swept
and clean.
Our old woman in Ballinvoher when her husband died
she used fill the pipe and leave it on the hob for
him, for the believed he'd come ever night and
he was very fond of a smoke. Some one of the
family used smoke the pipe when the old
woman was in bed, and she always believed
'twas the old man was at it.
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“There was a man by the name of Johnny Walsh...”
There was a man by the name of Johnny Walsh
and he used always come in to my Grandfather's
house in kilally. He used come in Scoruidiaeling
every night himself and few neighbours. One night, 'twas
a lovely moonlight night and me mother went out
to the door. She had a stocking that in
her hand and she knitting it. She went out
and looked around and walked up and down the yard. This Johnny Walsh, anyway jumped up and walked out. Me mother met him in the
yard and said: "Sure isn't home you're going sp
early, Johnny!" He passed her by and
made her no answer.
He didn't come to the house for six or seven(continues on next page)