Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 2)

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1. Selecting Site for House (continued)

   

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   Larry Doyle would always call for the holy water when he'd be at the foundations. The priests house in Aughracren was built on a graveyard and they say the curate used to bleed out of the ears but sure it wasn't his fault that the house was built on a graveyard (see p.26)

   Cud Quinlan

   Cud was only a nick-name. He had a nice little coat on at school one day and he said it was Miss Cud that made it. Cud was only a soubriquet (x). He was a very respectable man but he was blackguarded and couldn't help what he died. He promised the priest in Annacarty - a Father Mullaney - that he'd come to Confession on a certain day. The day came and the priest was hearing. He could Cud in the chapel beating his breast - terribly sorry you would say. The priest waited on but Quinlan had no notion to coming into the box. When the priest come out after waiting a long time, he was gone without tale or tidings.
   The priest was riding his horse along the road some time after....Quinlan got in over the ditch from him. The priest called after him and asked him why he didn't come in to Confession that day. Quinlan answered. There is another man over here that I must manage.
   Mise: Did you know him? Mrs Ryan: Not at all. He was dead before I was born. He was arrested soon after

   
   (X) Mrs Ryan was once a teacher

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   Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.

   History Edit

   Date

   24 October 1937

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Éilise Ní Riain