School: Réidh Ghlas (roll number 14853)

Location:
Knockardtry, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Pártholán Ó Dálaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0446, Page 341

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    There is a cement wall and a small green gate in Cordal church. Many people appeared there and lights are seen there still.
    There was once a man and he was coming home from town and he was crossing a church and a black dog came out of the church and he followed him to the man's house and the man sat down to eat his dinner and the black dog went under the table and lied down there and the man went to bed and the black dog went under the bed and stayed there until every body in the house went to bed and the black dog went into the bed and tore the clothes off the man and at dawn the man of the house died and he was not annointed at all and he was wakened and the black dog was still in the bed and the people of the house tried to
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
          1. graveyards (~2,501)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Katty Greaney
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Magret Shae
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    79
    Address
    Glanlarehan, Co. Kerry