School: Mainistir Ó dTórna
- Location:
- Abbeydorney, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Ríoghbhardáin
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- (continued from previous page)what his payment would be. The ghost met him the third night in same place and he offered him the pipe again. Just as the man had finished he said "God have mercy on your soul and all the souls of the faithful departed." The ghost shook the place around with the laugh he made when the man prayed for him. He said - "Good-bye now and you will never again see me here as this is all the Purgatory on my soul and I shall go to Heaven immediately as I got no one to pay me for my tobacco until tonight."
- In olden times there were no such things as clocks, as it was only with the light of the sun and moon that people judged the time of the day or night.
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