School: Cnoc na Groighe (B.), Ráth Mhór
- Location:
- Knocknagree, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Muimhneacháin
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- (continued from previous page)floor. This action was repeated several times until the mangled corpses of three of them lay on the floor. The fourth was so badly injured that he lapsed into unconsciousness. He recovered however after a short time and this is the story he narrated. He was gripped around the waist and was just being raised up when the spirit of his first wife (who was dead) appeared to him all clothed in white and immediately she opened her arms the grip relaxed and the invisible object vanished. Therefore it must have been an evil spirit that was at work. From that time on the Rathmore road was impossible to travel after dark.*
On one occasion a man with a horse and cart on reaching the now called "Tommy shops" - at that time "tig na púcaí" - a grey hound came from inside the fence and kicked the spoke*Something resembling blood is still to be seen on the high ceiling of the old stable at the Presbytery.
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- Collector
- Eoghain Ó Dálaigh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Nohaval Upper, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Diarmuid Ua Laoghaire
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathmore, Co. Kerry
