School: Moneymohill, Shanagolden (roll number 8395)
- Location:
- Moneymohill, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Máire Ní Liain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0484, Page 139
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- (continued from previous page)He prepared her for death. The house at the time was full of people. Before he gave her absolution, she confessed publicly to all present, that all the Piseógs and works done during her life time, were done by the power of the devil. Stephen Danaher who afterwards was parish priest of Loughill, and who died there in "Fairy Lawn", the house in which Gerald Griffin was born; told of Joan Grogan's death. Her grand-children lived in this district.
Biddy Early who lived in Clare worked piseógs too. A man from Carnagh, Jim Cosgrave's father went to visit her. Cosgrave's brother was seriously ill, so he walked from here to Clare. When he arrived in Clare, he enquired of some road men as to where Biddy Early lived. They refused to give any information; as the priests in Clare at the time, had been loud in their condemnation of her practices. Finally he met a workman who had pity for him, after his long journey and who told him to go in that mountain(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary A. Lane
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Moneymohill, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Margaret Ferris
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Park, Co. Limerick
