School: An Góilín, An Sciobairín (roll number 5656)
- Location:
- Goleen, Co. Cork
- Teacher: P. Ó Meádhra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0287, Page 179
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“There was a fellow around here one time and he came from Kerry.”
(continued from previous page)after that that twas the biggest funeral he ever saw.
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“People say that if a corpse came ashore you should not give it up at all, but bury it in the land.”
People say that if a corpse came ashore you should not give it up at all, but bury it in the land.
They say that religious people wearing scapulars and so on would float if they fell into the sea.
There was a man drowned in the North Side (Dun Mánus Bay.) Wm. Downey has his name. twas the way that he was taking rack (wreck). They were looking and poking for the body for days. They sent for Father Desmond who was Parish Priest in Goleen at that time. He went north and they showed him the place where the man was drowned. He picked up three small stones. the second stone he threw in, the body floated up.