School: St Boden's, Culdaff
- Location:
- Cúil Dabhcha, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: Doiminic Ó Duibhne
![The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1123, Page 240](https://doras.gaois.ie/cbes/CBES_1123%2FCBES_1123_240.jpg?width=1600&quality=85)
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1123, Page 240
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- A little girl came to a certain priest to go on "a sick call." "Well dear, where is the sick call," asked the priest. "Come, I will show you," said the little girl.
The priest followed the child until she came to a high precipice. Here she stood and pointed down the cliff saying, "it is down there."
The priest then made his way down and found at the bottom a man lying dying. So he annointed him and got help and had him carried up and buried.
The child was dead some years, and had come back to save her father's soul. The cliff(continues on next page)- Collector
- Kathleen Deeny
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Christe Doran
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Bun an Ghaoith, Co. Dhún na nGall