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   I saved you last night" said Burchell.
   How? said the priest
   Lucky for you none of them saw you standing in the blind hole on the bridge or you were a done man.
   Who saw me? said the priest.
   I did said Burchell.
   You never did. said the priest.
   I did surely, haden't you your hat over your face? said Burchell.
   "That's so" said the priest "and Burchell you must be a Catholic".
   I'm not said Burchell and I'd cut off my arm if I thought it had papist blood in it.
   Now Burchall I tell you no protestant could see me last night and you saw me. Find out if you are a protestant.
   The priest left Burchell annoyed. He wondered at the words of A Cassidy. He found out later, that the night he was born, an old Catholic woman thought he was about to die and gave him a lay baptism.
   Some people say that the Berehalls[?] were at Ballintra before 1798. They were poor and humble in their way

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   Topics

   1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Seán Ó Céilleachair

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Múinteoir

   Informant

   Joseph Rourke

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Sheskinacurry, Co. Leitrim