Volume: CBÉ 0098 (Part 11)
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0098, Page 302
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- I heard the story about it from my father (God rest him!). Sure, lights were seen on the rock in St. Patrick's time, and, God bless the hearers and where 'tis told, anyone that'd see the lights they'd die! Many a one died from them and so the poor people wouldn't look out after dark any more. A poor fellow that tried to climb the rock and put them out there was an ould hag on top and she flung a rock of a stone at him. It missed him but he died all the same. And where do you think the stone landed? Over in Corcamore. I could show it to you, Sir, and the marks of her fingers on it. Well, Sir, that was the time St. Patrick was beyond in Knockpatrick; and an old man went to him and told him about it. God bless the good Saint, didn't he stretch out his two holy hands towards Carrig and Besses it. From that on the lights were never seen any more. Carrig O Gunnell means 'The Rock of the Candle', they say.
Corcamore is a district a mile from Carrig Rock. Informant showed me the stone which lies in this district and we can plainly see marks like fingers on it.
