School: Kilduff
- Location:
- Kilduff Upper, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Ó Floinn
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- (continued from previous page)-yard to count them, as they knew it was the safest place, where no one would notice them.
They lost two apples at the gate going in of them but they said they would get them coming out. They made believe that they were two angels counting the souls in the graveyard. "This one for God an this one for the Devil"
There was two other men standing at the gate listening to them counting the souls' as the men at the gate thought. When they had all counted Higgins said to his friend "Is that them all now"? "No", said D'arcy "What about the two at the gate?" meaning the two apples. When the men at the gate heard this they thought it was they the thieves meant and they ran home.
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- Collector
- Francis Mc Partland
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Annagh Upper, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Tom Dempsey
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Annagh Upper, Co. Leitrim
