School: Kilmurry (C.) (roll number 10395)

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1. Jack O Donoghue Story (continued)

   

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   obliged him with his horse and common cart for to take her home so they were a couple of days going for the journey being so far. Jack was a native" of Cahirciveen. Living not far from Daniel Connels ruins in a place called Derrynane Abbey Jack was inquiring all along as he was travelling and the second evening he arrived in the district where she had known a lot of places, there was a gate lodge getting into the great house where her father kept a man and his wife for the purpose of opening and closing the gate when people pass in and out. Just as they were approaching the gate the wife of the lodge man was standing by with her hands crossed wearing one of those plain check aprons - one of the olden times. The moment the car approached the gate the woman that occupied the lodge began to cry.

   "Why are you weeping" said Jack.

   "I will tell you why" replied the lodge woman with a pitiful face. "That girl in the car reminds me of a beautiful girl that passed away here some time ago. Her father and mother lives above in that Great House and they feel very lonely after her."

   "Would you know her" said Jack "if you see her again."

   "She is very much like her" was the woman's reply "and that is the reason I fell so lonesome for she was very fond of me."

   "Well" said Jack "you have her again I

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Reidy

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Coom, Co. Kerry

   Informant

   Eugene Mara

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   c. 50

   Occupation

   Labourer

   Address

   Cordal, Co. Kerry