School: Cnoc na Groighe (B.), Ráth Mhór
- Location:
- Knocknagree, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Díarmuid Ó Muimhneacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0358, Page 492
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“I have heard some interesting tales of (a) Ghost and Famine (b) Lights, (c) Persons going astray (d) Funerals.”
(continued from previous page)veil - She went on towards Rahilly’s house in Cuimín and the minute she turned off the road towards the house I knew who I had. The Lord between us and all harm - she was Rahilly’s daughter Mrs Kissane who had died a short time before that, in her first confinement.Also from Mrs. B. Sheehan.
After I came to live in Knocknagree Patsy (the Lord have mercy on him) and Davy Daly and his wife Mary Healy (the Lord have mercy on them all - they are all dead) and myself were coming along the Coach Road from Killarney. The men had a drop in, and that wasn’t seldom with them, and as we were coming over there along from Taimín Doody’s past the Sruthán and up the little hill beyond that I saw a carriage coming from the east. I was afraid the men who were sitting on the set-lock wouldn’t see it so I pulled the horse in a bit off the road. Well, Mr. Moynihan, the carriage passed and I didn’t see a horse or anything under it but sitting up(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Díarmuid Ó Múimhneacháin
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Príomhoide
- Informant
- Mrs B. Sheehan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 87
- Address
- Knocknagree, Co. Cork