School: Murher (C.) (roll number 13541)
- Location:
- Murher, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Chonaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0404, Page 237
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- (continued from previous page)not a living thing and he told her that he would not. "Haven't you as much right to come with me as your cousin Jack went with another girl which he knew to be dead". "I don't care to the devil who will go or stay but I will not go". "Will you come in three weeks time?" she asked. He said he would not. At that moment her face assumed a very ugly appearance and she began to keep back from him. He gave one jump into his cart and gave a look back and saw her going through the fields facing for the river. He took off his hat and thanked God that it was the Holy Water that he sprinkled on himself in the morning that saved him.
- Collector
- Teresa Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Leitrim East, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Michael Flaherty
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 62
- Address
- Toberatooreen, Co. Kerry
