School: Baldwinstown
- Location:
- Baldwinstown, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Ristéard Mac Plib
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0876, Page 320
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- (continued from previous page)He was coming along anyway and when he was getting over a style (stile) he saw someone standing at the other end of it, and he thought it was his friend that was in it, and says he, "Begor yez got away very quick tonight" !
And begor, sure it wasn't the boy at all was there but the "sperrit" of a priest who had died and forgot to say a mass for someone or other.
He used to haunt that style every night but he couldn't 'spake' til somebody spoke to him. So when this Warren spoke to him he said, says he, "You're a lucky boy." "I have been here such a length of time and you are the first that spoke to me"
Then he tells Warren to go to the Parish Priest in the morning and tell him to say the mass he had forgotten.
"And," says he, "Come here and meet me at the same time tomorrow night. If I'm gone to rest I won't be here; and if I'm not, I will be here"
Well, Warren told the Parish priest all right, and he came to the style the next night; but the 'priest' was not there.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nioclás Beinéid
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 15
- Address
- Ballymitty, Co. Wexford
