School: Listellick, Tráighlí

Location:
Listellick North, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Domhnall Ó Súilleabháin
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  1. Some time in the year 1923 a man named Patrick OSullivan of Baillinloarth ([?]) was working in a field of Ned Fitzgerald's of Buntaloon ([?]) called the Fort Field when he saw a small little motor car go up a by-road near John OHanlon's fence of Liosloose ([?]). He ran after it, but when it came to the end of the bye road it disappeared.
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  2. One night as Seán Hutchinson a servant boy by John Slattery Oak Park was coming home from John Walshes of Bantaloon ([?]) he met near Florence oSullivans of Badlinlourth [?] a man without any head. A few weeks after this a Mrs Haly a woman that worked in Ned Fitzgerald's of Bartaloon [?] suddenly died.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    2. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mrs Mc Mahon
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    60
    Address
    Listellick North, Co. Kerry