School: Sraith (roll number 16623)
- Location:
- Srah, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Séamus E. Ó Dubhghaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0050, Page 0168
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“In the year 1860 in Woodford, Co. Galway, in the townland of Gerrygill, two men named Mahon and Moran lived.”
(continued from previous page)The way home led by the church of Bloncoe, and coming near it she said she was afraid to live alone, and they said they would go in and ask the priest to marry them that evening.
The priest as first refused to marry them and after a while he called them back and demanded five pounds marriage money. He told him he had no money, and the wife said she would give him the one little pig she had if he married them. The priest gave instruction to his servant man to go for the pig at day light in the morning.
Moran remained two nights in Tipperary after the funeral. On the third night he returned foot sore and weary and knocked at the door for admission. They put the back stick to the door and shook the holy water and commanded him to some resting place and to neither hurt or harm them. After repeated attempts to get in he went to the pig house and lay down with his little pig.
The priests man arrived for his pig and in the darkness he put the rope on Morans leg. Moran awoke from his slumbers. The priests man ran and came home and told his reverence. The priest did not believe him and the man told him that Morans ghost followed him for half a mile.
It being Sunday morning and the bell rang for mass, and Moran decided to go to early mass. All the neighbours ran from him. One old man had more courage and told the whole story to him. Where he heard it he went back to Tipperary and we never heard from him since.Writer:
Kathleen Abberton,
Rossmore,
Woodford,
Co. Galway.Story Teller:
David Hickey,
Rossmore,
Woodford,
Co. Galway
- Collector
- Kathleen Abberton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rosmore, Co. Galway
- Informant
- David Hickey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rosmore, Co. Galway