School: Mín Riabhach (roll number 17050)
- Location:
- Meenreagh, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Anton Ó Domhnaill
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- About 50 years ago a very holy woman lived in Meenagoland. She always said that she would like to have the priest before she died.
One day she got very ill and was going to die. A man went for the pirest to the Crossroads on horse-back. When he was a mile from the house the woman said, “Thank God I got the priest,” and then she held out her hands and the people saw the holy oil on her hands. The people never saw any priest in the house at that time.
There was a man going to the house and he met a priest who was dead for a long time leaving the house. It was(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick J. Gallen
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mr John Browne
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tievecloghoge, Co. Donegal
