School: Kenmare (B.) (roll number 2849)

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   “Jerry Cornllise's great grandmother was in the fairies.”

   

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   forcing him not to give the herbs but he did. She took it + was cured.
   They used to resort the house because the clay pipes used be got by the people of the house in the morning. She used to tell her adventures to her family.

   In olden times they used always take away children. there were certain families that a cry followed. The Sullivan Soriheys were one at Cappamore.

   

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   “While my mother lived, she always kept winding sheets for the dead...”

   

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   While my mother lived, she always kept winding sheets for the dead and when she was dying she gave them to me. "Don't make any use of them but give them to anyone that wants them" said she to me. I was short this time and I put the sheets on my own bed The baby was inside me and when I put in my hands to lift up the baby, I felt the hands coming up to lift the baby. I knew them to be the feel of my mother's hands. The hands came whatever. The baby

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      1. social activities (~7)
         1. rites of passage (~573)
            1. death (~1,076)
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      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mrs Mc Carthy

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   81

   Address

   Carhoomeengar West, Co. Kerry