School: Knockaderry (C.) (roll number 2419)

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   Folklore
   There was a man in the east of Kerry. He was a great card player.
   One night he was coming home after playing cards. he was crossing a fort. He saw a light and he heard a voice, he went in and saw nothing the next night the same thing happened.
   The man went home he got sick and died.
   Peg Gleeson
   Bally Brack 13 years

   

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2. Old Story about Kilnanare Graveyard

   

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   Firies Girls' School 20.5.38 Old Story about Kilnanare Grave yard There is a Church Yard in my district called Kilnanare. They say there is an old tradition following it that there were two lovers to be married. On the eve of the marriage the girl died, the boy was at the wake, he went and cried over the corpse, then turned to the people and said " I only wished I was the corpse". That night the boy got sick his request before he died was to bury him side by side with the girl. He died that night and both coffins

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   Topics

   1. objects
      1. man-made structures
         1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
            1. graveyards (~2,501)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Hickey

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   13

   Address

   Gortnaglogh, Co. Kerry