School: Caladh na Feirsde (roll number 13481/2)
- Location:
- Callanafersy West, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Luain
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0433, Page 135
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Caladh na Feirsde
- XML Page 135
- XML “A Story”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- A StoryThere was once an old woman who lived in the west of Kerry. As is usual in country places the priest announced that the stations were to be held in her house in a fortnight's time.
She objected to this. A few days later the priest visited her house and assured her that she need not go to any expense. All he asked of her was to have the Mass celebrated in her house, but she still refused.
A short time after seven rats of different colours visited her house. She fed them with bread and they went to a near-by stream for water.
They always disappeared when the sacrifice of the Mass was being offered up in a church near by.
Some time after another priest came to the parish who banished the rats from her; but as a second penance she had to draw huge stones from a mountain and place them all round her house.
In the ordinary course it would take three strong men to lift one of those. She sat on top of these rocks while the people went to Mass and rocked herself to and fro.
She lived to be a very old woman.
I got the above story from Michael O Connor,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen O Connor
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilderry North, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Michael O Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilderry North, Co. Kerry
