School: Cnoc an Iubhair (C.)
- Location:
- Kealid, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Máire Ní Cheallacháin
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- (continued from previous page)anything for him. The man spoke and said he owed ten pence to a woman in the village of Duagh whose name was Joy. The man who was going rambling paid the eight pence to Mrs Joy.
The man went to the same house the third night and when he was coming home he saw two blue lights on the side of the hill as he came along he followed the lights and the more he followed the further they went away from him. As he thought he was a man with horns he followed the man. He came to his own house and he burst in the door and the following day he was very sick in bed and they sent for the priest for him but he was dead before the priest came. The priest read over him and he told the clerk to close his hands in what he would give him and cast it into the fire and it lit up and the man was(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Michael Madigan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 59
- Address
- Carhooearagh, Co. Kerry
