School: Castlecomer (B.) (roll number 1118)
- Location:
- Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: D. Ó Riada
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0864, Page 112
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- One day a friar went to Miss Butler's door for alms, but she shut the door on him, when he was walking out its said he wrote on the window, "I curse Miss Butler, and you can see writing there still.
- Collector
- Joseph Quinn
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Joseph Quinn
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
- There is a man in Comer, and sometimes he goes to bed and although he was not sick he would stay in bed a long time and all that he used to talk to fairies and if you went to him he would tell a true fortune.
