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1. A Story About John Durkin (continued)

   

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   feeling well. She told him that she wasn't too well but all the same she wasn't what you'd say very sick.
   He asked her then would she like to be anointed. She agreed to be anointed. When she was anointed the priest went home. That night before the priest went to bed the woman died.
   Here is another story:- In one of the streets of London there was a woman living with herself. She was an old woman too.
   One night when she went upstairs to bed she got suddenly sick. As she was alone there was no one to go for the priest for her.
   That same night a young woman knocked at the priest's door. She told the

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Kathleen Flannelly

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Bofield, Co. Mayo

   Informant

   Mr O' Leary

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Bofield, Co. Mayo