School: Cill t-Síothláin, Cluain Meala (roll number 7607)
- Location:
- Kilsheelan, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Pádraig Mac Aragáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0568, Page 190
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“A Catholic family once lived in a mansion, and they had a chaplin...”
A Catholic family once lived in a mansion, and they had a chaplin. A member of the family was both deaf and dumb. She made her Confession in writing one day, and the chaplin put it in his Breviary and wen t to the hunting field. He forgot all about it. He met with an accident which proved fatal, in the room where he heard the confession. It was haunted by a man in the garb of a priest. The Catholic family left, and some time afterwards another family replaced them. When they opened the door they saw a man in the garb of a priest. No one would enter this room. Some time after a Bishop visited the family, and they told him about this room. He said he would like to see it. They told him not. But he did not heed them. With a lighted candle, he began to open the door; he felt faint, but he(continues on next page)
- Collector
- William Lynch
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Kavanagh
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Poulakerry, Co. Tipperary