School: Killorglin (C.) (roll number 12833)

Location:
Killorglin, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Úna Nic Coluin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0434, Page 231

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    Many years ago a family of Cahillanes lived in Laharn, but they are all dead now.

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    the Rosary said, they went out of the house.
    The next morning the man and woman got a wire that one of their sons was dead
    It happened again in 1920 - the footsteps came into the house again and the old pair heard their deceased son say the prayers this time. The got out of bed, answered the prayers Then the footsteps went out of the house again
    The next morning another of their sons came home, and told them he ran into an ambush. He said that he would have been shot only that one of the sergeants said that he was not in the fight at all, so he was saved
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Dola Ní Dhuibhir
    Address
    Killorglin, Co. Kerry