School: Sessiagh Uí Néill
- Location:
- Sessiagh (O'Neill), Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Liam Mac Meanman
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1097, Page 120
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“One night a man was coming from Letterkenny he bought a horse at the fair and when he was coming home at Meenaroy the horse began to fling he began to beat the horse.”
One night a man was coming from Letterkenny he bought a horse at the fair and when he was coming home at Meenaroy the horse began to fling he began to beat the horse. The horse would no move for him no matter wha[?] he would do. The horse saw somethin{?] but it was a mystery to the man. The man heard it after he said by the old people in the Gaeltacht that if you look between the horses ears you would see what ever the horse saw. He did and then he saw a black man. He asked the black man in God's name if there was anything troubling him. He said to him I am in Purgatory for over fifty years and I have not saw God or Heaven if only I got a mass read by a priest I would be relived from Purgatory. I have no one in this world to pray for me and if I got a man said for me I would go straight(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seamus Logue
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballybofey, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs Logue
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballybofey, Co. Donegal