School: Riverchapel (roll number 15367)
- Location:
- Séipéal na hAbhann, Co. Loch Garman
- Teacher: Brighid Ní Dhonnchadha
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- Long ago in Courtown House, a servant girl and she was a Catholic, she was a servant there for a long time. She went to confession, and was to go to Holy Communion that next Sunday. The Courtown's were Protestants and they asked her to bring the Blessed Sacrament to the house and show it to them she said she would. She went to Holy Comunion when the priest put the Blessed Sacrament into her mouth she went to her seat and put the Blessed Sacrament into her hankerchief. When she reached the House and opened her hankerchief out it was full of blood and one drop fell to the floor. When she realised what she had done she went out and drowned herself in the well. Ever since it is called Kelly's well. It was said that her spirit remained in the House for long after crying through the house. The Courtown's got a priest to say Mass there, but he was not able to put away the evil spirit by himself and they got another one to help him. They got the spirit into the Red Sea. It is said that the blood is on(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Sarah Maguire
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Séipéal na hAbhann, Co. Loch Garman
- Informant
- James Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Séipéal na hAbhann, Co. Loch Garman
