School: Gort na Mara (Seafield) (roll number 11565)

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1. The Local Herring Fishing (continued)

   

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   off this coast. It is said that he cursed the place and since then no herring have been caught.

   The man's grandson lives convenient to the Pier and since the priest was a suspended one the narrator desires that both names be withheld from this account.

   

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2. A Remarkable Happening

   

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   A Remarkable Happening About 46 years ago a little boy died and was to be buried in Kilmacshalgan old graveyard. He was nephew of Hugh Colleary of Carrowmably. Before sunrise on May 1st two men went to make his grave and when they reached the graveyard they found two women taking clay from a grave Fr Michael Clarke P.P. was informed and believed that one of the women was there for the purpose of taking butter from other people's cows. He came to ask the caretaker of the graveyard (Thady Kiliehil)

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. narratives (~478)
         1. religious tales (~1,085)
   2. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   John Dowd

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Dromore West, Co. Sligo