School: Myrtleville (roll number 529)
- Location:
- Myrtleville, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Murchadha
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- (continued from previous page)three horses there and a man on each horse. Then his son exclaimed. "Come on away home or we will be killed." Then the three ran [?] for their lives. They went there the second time but the same thing happened. They did not venture it the third time.
- Edward Brady, the same man, was going to the fair at 2 o' clock in the morning. When he was getting up he forgot to say his prayers. On his way a woman got into the cart with him. It was a dead woman who had lived a very sinful life and was dammed in hell. She would not leave the horse go or get out of the cart for him. Then he got out and prayed for a priest. At last he saw a priest coming up the road towards him. It was a priest named Fr. Florence Mac Carthy. This priest was also dead and was in heaven.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seamus Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Myrtleville, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs Noonan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Kilmichael West, Co. Cork