School: Áthán (B.), Lios na Groighe (roll number 14173)
- Location:
- Ahane, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Seán Ó Héalaithe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0523, Page 429
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- One night a neighbour went for the priest for a sick man. When he went to the priests house the priest was in bed but he was not long getting ready.
They drove very hard so as to reach the sick before he died. But as they were coming down a steep hill the horse stopped and refused to go farther.
The priest got down off the car and blessed the horse and turned him around the road and set him back apast what ever he saw. When they had passed the place they got up on the car and reached the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mick Cooke
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Pat Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
