School: Castlemaine (B.) (roll number 5169)
- Location:
- Castlemaine, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Corcoráin
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- (continued from previous page)she would find potatoes and meat. The mother said that was impossible, that she had nothing in the house like it, but the travelling woman told her at least to try. She searched and sure enough she found the meat and potatoes which she cooked and they all ate a fine meal. As the travelling woman was leaving the next morning she told the widow woman that she would get food there every day to feed herself and her children and she also told her that she was St. Gobnet and that she was now going west to Dingle where the black plague was setting in.
- Collector
- Willie O Brien
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- Over 10
- Address
- Ardcanaght, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mr Timothy O Brien
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 51
- Address
- Ardcanaght, Co. Kerry
