School: Kilcormac (Mercy Convent)
- Location:
- Kilcormac, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Sr M. Finghín
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- One time about eighty or ninety years ago there was a fever hospital in my district. A man named Stephen Kelly was hired to bury those people who were dying with the fever.
he had an ass and car to bring the coffins to the graveyard. On his way to the graveyard one day with an old man supposed to be dead, he heard him stirring in the coffin, and stood to take the lid off the coffin. The man was asking to get out, but the driver said to him: "Lie down now, you are dead." the man said "I am not dead." Then the driver said: "You don't know better than the doctor."
The driver went o and buried him because he was paid for it.
- Informant
- Mrs May Gath
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilnagall, Co. Offaly
