1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Gleann Gort, Caisleán Nua Thiar

School: Gleann Gort, Caisleán Nua Thiar (roll number 7329)

Location:
Glengort South, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Treasa, Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0492, Page 178

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0492, Page 178

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Gleann Gort, Caisleán Nua Thiar
  2. XML Page 178
  3. XML “Story”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Story

    Share Share Post
    Long ago there was a parish priest in Brosna named Father Harnett. And it happened also that there were two Holy Fathers giving a mission for two weeks. While they were there there used to be Confessions and sermons every day of the week in the chapel. On Saturday there was a crowd of people for confession. The two Holy Fatheres were in the two confessionals and Father Harnett was sitting on a chair inside the altar rails. Now Father Harnett had a great habit of dozing asleep when he was hearing a persons confession, and then he would wake up suddenly and give the person absolution whether he heard him or not is ot known. So it is no wonder that there was a crowd around Father and not a
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. penal times (~4,335)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kitty Doherty
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Toornafulla, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    Richard Harnett
    Relation
    Unknown
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    97