School: Listowel (B.) (roll number 1797)
- Location:
- Listowel, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Brian Mac Mathúna
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- 8. There was a fellah there long 'go and he used be taken out of his bed every night when he was asleep and he'd be made play a game of hurling. He went to America because he thought the dead people couldn't cross the water after him. He used be carried out in America and made play hurling again. He died while he was a young man.
- 9. My grand uncle Dick Enright saw a light in the bog in Dromerin. He was drowned after in the same place.
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- J. Doyle
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Garryantanvally, Co. Kerry
- 11. One night a boy and a girl were coming home from a dance and they met a woman, and they asked her if she would go down as far as the black steps with them and she said she would. When they were apass the black steps they said they were safe and the woman said she would take the short cut across the field. When she went into the field she saw a huge circle. It went around very fast until it became about the size of a reel of thread. Then it went slowly along the field and the woman walked after it and when it came to the end of the field it disappeared. Then the woman went out the gate of the field and when she went into a house she told her story to the man of the house and he said it must have been the devil.
- 12. A man by the name of Sheehy who was a very holy man died. At the wake it was noticed that a smile stole over his face.
