School: Killadangan (roll number 4854)
- Location:
- Killadangan, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire Bean Uí Domhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0138C, Page 02_019
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- One day a woman was walking along a road, and she met a minister who said, "I'll give you five pounds to let me sleep in your house to night". She consented, went further on her journey and met another minister, consented to his request, and also to a third, and got her £15. On going home she told her husband who said, "Ah Mary, mo chroidhe, I'll settle them, the devils, when they come, tell them to go to the room, and when they enter I'll kill them one by one." At 8.o.c. The first one arrived, and the woman said, "Go up there, and when he went to the door he was killed, the second got the same, and so also did the third and they were thrown under the bed. "Now", said the wife, "What shall we(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nan Nolan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonagh, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Pat Gibbons
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 78
- Address
- Prospect, Co. Mayo
