School: Leithead (roll number 5480)

Location:
Lehid, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin
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    And become a priest, and when he would be ordained he would come home and on the next day a lightning would come and burn him. So his father made a cave for him to go into during the lightning. So it happened the same way as the man told him. He grew up and went to college and was ordained and when he was twenty three years he came home. So his gather told him about the lightning that would come, and he said he would give himself up to God. So he stood in the middle of a field the day of
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    Folktales index
    AT0934: The Prince and the Storm
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Casey
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mrs Dan Sullivan
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    76
    Address
    Lehid, Co. Kerry