School: Lisball
- Location:
- Lisball, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Doherty
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- (continued from previous page)she had calved. The cow calved in due course, and Meldrum, disregarding his instructions, drank some of the mild. When he admitted to the priest what he had done the priest said "You have what was for me". He had got the gift of prophecy and continued in this role till the time of his death.
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- Collector
- S. Doherty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lisball, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mr Phil Gaynor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bailieborough, Co. Cavan
- One night a man returning from Kingscourt was held up by some unknown power and taken to a fort or rath in a nearby field. When he entered the fort it was full of grand ladies and gentlemen dancing and singing and(continues on next page)