School: Dealgain (roll number 11770)
- Location:
- Dalgin, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Breandán Ó Riain
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- (continued from previous page)He went in the same door. When they saw him coming in they ran out the other door. When the Priest came out to say mass there was only him in the chapel and the Priest came down to him and said to him "go back to thy grave" and he said "why would I go where I never was before. The priest said to him "were you not buried a few days ago" and he said not. Then the priest got the servant boy to open the grave and as soon as he had it opened a hound jumped up. The wife thought that her husband was dead and she had no one to do anything for her. So she married the servant boy. So when the servant boy saw him coming he got afraid and he ran away. The husband and wife lived happy from that on.
- Informant
- James Donahue
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Cloondroon, Co. Galway
