School: Garrdha Clochair
- Location:
- Garrycloher, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: H. Ó Cionnaoith
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the butler was arrested and confessed his crime. "I stole the key of the family vault," he said, "for I knew that Isobel was buried with valuable rings n her fingers, having failed to take them off at the joints.
She screamed and I fled in terror." The doctor explained that Isobel was not dead but only in a trance and that the cut in the finger-joint put the blood circulating through the body and was the means of saving her life.
In a short time she was fully recovered and she married the English Earl and they lived together for ever after.
I cannot tel how the truth may be, I tell the tale as it was told to me.
- Collector
- Willie Maxey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Garrycloher, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr Dan O' Donnell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Garryroan, Co. Tipperary
