School: Baile na Cille (roll number 1320)
- Location:
- Ballynakill, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Éinrí Ó Mainnín
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- Long ago a young priest used to be praying out in the garden every day. One day as he was praying a lady appeared to him whom he thought was the blessed virgin. He told an old priest about it and both came into the garden. The priest had a crucifix and he went up to the woman and said "If you are the mother of God kiss that". That minute the woman flew away and the old priest said it was the devil that was in it instead of the blessed virgin.
- Collector
- Patrick Cosgrave
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Curragh, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Thomas Cosgrave
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Curragh, Co. Galway
