School: Rathea, Liostuathail (roll number 7843)
- Location:
- Rathea, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Muiris Ó Loingsigh
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- (continued from previous page)refused admittance to hell or to heaven had to return again to this world and resort to marshy places. The light can be seen to this day quenching and lighting quenching and lighting. While Bill would hold his nose under the water it would remain quenched and when he'd raise it, it would hold lighting. So people call him Will O the Wisp or Jack O The Lantern. The roguery being in Bill in this life followed him in the next. It became a habit of his to put people astray at night.
- Collector
- Seán Treannt
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathea, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Seán Ó Catail
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 47
- Address
- Rathea, Co. Kerry