School: Glenahulla, Mitchelstown (roll number 12446)

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1. Folklore - A Local Sad Incident in 1816 (continued)

   

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   bridegroom, but two daughters of his Margaret and Mary perished on the occasion so that the shock must have been fearful. Two separate headstones mark the spot where their remains rest awaiting the trumpet call of St Michael the Arch-Angel. A well authenticated story related by a very respectable woman who still happily survives, Mrs Mary Kennedy of Ballyanihen is that the distracted mother whilst she was wailing in the yard in front of the burning or burned dwelling, saw a vision of her two daughters Margaret and Mary pass out through the door dressed in beautiful white robes after the awful carnage was over. It was perhaps a momentary glimpse of the happiness in store for her children in the world, to comfort the afflicted mother in this hour of her trial and tribulation. The tale told by Mrs Kennedy was related to her very often by her stepmother, one of the Fennell family Old Castletown, Kildorrery, a cousin of the OMahonys who was a little girl at the time. It was an event long to be remembered by the friends and relatives of the victims of this fire, and even still after the lapse of a century and a half one shudders at its recollection.
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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Máiréad Bean Uí Réagáin

   Gender

   Female

   Occupation

   Múinteoir