School: Crecora, Tobar Pádraig (roll number 9668)

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1. Johanna Malone (continued)

   

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   in adoration used frequently prostrate herself and lie prone on the tiled floor. She used to be the cynosure of the small boys, whom she knew were interested in her movements, and during the sermon she turned her tin can up side down and utilised it as a seat. It was then she used give a scornful look at the young delinquents.

   I heard she got a great fright one fine May morning in this quarter. She was travelling on an old boreen when she met a man almost nude and apparently asleep, walking towards her. He passed and did not seem to mind her The fact is, that he was a somnambulist and had divested himself in a big field and walked homewards in his sleep.

   Poor Johanna Malone is dead and gone to the great

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Seán Ó Finn

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Lemonfield, Co. Limerick

   Informant

   Seán Ó Cuirc

   Gender

   Male