School: Castlecomer (B.) (roll number 1118)
- Location:
- Caisleán an Chomair, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: D. Ó Riada
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0864, Page 138
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“One time there was a woman in the hospital who loved potatoes,...”
(continued from previous page)but the nuns would not give her any. One night she was dying and was still roaring for potatoes. So one of the nuns gave her a big feed of potatoes and three weeks later she left the hospital.
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“One time there was a dead man in the hospital...”
One time there was a dead man in the hospital and the nuns were waiting until twelve o'clock, midnight to put him the dead house. When twelve o'clock rang they put him in the dead house and locked the door. When they were going down they heard a knock at the dead house door, and they ran. In the morning they went up again and they saw the man they had put on the table lying on the floor and blood coming from(continues on next page) - Collector
- Joseph Quinn
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Joseph Quinn
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Caisleán an Chomair, Co. Chill Chainnigh