School: Baile Mhic Citheóla (roll number 14759)
- Location:
- Ballymackeehola, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Mac Giolla Bharraigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0145, Page 191
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“About sixty years ago there were nine men working at Mr Featherstone.”
(continued from previous page)of them. They began shouting and making the sign of the Cross. They thought it was the devil that was in it and that they would be swept away every minute. They tried to run but they were not making good progress and the man of the bicycle over-took them and tried to make them sure that he was a living person but it was all in vain. One of the men did not recover for a month. The man continued on his way to Ballycastle. As he was entering the town there were old women in a door-way. They knelt down and began saying the Rosary. They thought they would never see another day in Ballycastle. They were frightened at seeing such a strange machine, for they thought it impossible for anything(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen O' Boyle
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Fahy, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mr Pat Gallagher
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Fahy, Co. Mayo