School: Cnoc na Groighe (B.), Ráth Mhór
- Location:
- Knocknagree, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Díarmuid Ó Muimhneacháin
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“I have heard some interesting tales of (a) Ghost and Famine (b) Lights, (c) Persons going astray (d) Funerals.”
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“(a) (Re lights) what my mother told you about the lights is quite true because as a young lad the lives were frightened out of us by those lights.”
Jeremiah Sheehan son of Mrs Sheehan told me the following:-
a) (Re lights) What my mother told you about the lights is quite true because as a young lad the lives were frightened out of us by those lights. I often heard it said that the lights would go from the Fothrachs and down the chimney of Moll Showlder's cabin and I often saw them. Anyone would swear that they went down the chimney. Since John Duggan's bog (at Nohoval 1/2 mile south) was drained I haven't seen anyone of them.(continues on next page)