School: Ballyseedy (roll number 9048/55)
- Location:
- Ballyseedy, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: D. Mac Suibhne
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- (continued from previous page)would shoot the priest if he did not show him a sign that his father was in hell.The priest said he would come the next night and so he did. He asked the son what room did his father die in and the son showed him. He told the son to put shutters on the windows and he did. The priest went around the room three times and said some words, then he told the son to light a candle, the son did so. Then the father came in to the room through the wall with a devil at each side. When the son saw him he told the priest to drive them away. The priest shook holy water at them(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Shea
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lissardboola, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Con Shea
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Lissardboola, Co. Kerry