School: Kilbegnet (roll number 1327)
- Location:
- Kilbegnet, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Briain
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- (continued from previous page)just indie the gate and the priest went down in the grave and started moaning. And the boy said "they never covered the corpse today."
The boy went into the church-yard and started shoveling down the clay on top of the priest and the priest started roaring for mercy. The lad stopped shovelling and pulled up the priest out of the grave and left him home. The priest said that he was the bravest man ever he saw. And the next day the priest went to the widow and said he could do nothing for her son.- Collector
- Sean Mac an Bháird
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 11
- Address
- Kilbegnet, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- James Ward
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 42
- Address
- Kilbegnet, Co. Roscommon