School: Barradubh (Sixmilebridge)
- Location:
- Barraduff, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Dómhnall Ua Donnchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0457, Page 418
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- (continued from previous page)A man named Jerry O'Donaghue (called Jerry Maurice) lived at Bun a' Chumar in the parish of Glenflesk until his death at the age of seventy one in 1937. He believed in Ghosts and when a young man would not go out alone except on very urgent business. He was passionately fond of fishing. One night with a companion he was fishing in the Abha n Criath which runs by Carradubh School. About a half a mile from the river is Kilquane Graveyard in the parish of Rathmore.The police saw the fishermen and attempted to capture them. They ran but lost each other in the dark. Jerry Maurice found himself beside near the graveyard. He got in over the wall and stretched beside a head-stone where he remained until day-break the next morning. He told me that he was more afraid of the living that the dead and maintained that belief ever afterwards.Curiously enough his grandfather had a rather similar experience years and years before. James Darby O'Donoghue(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Dómhnall Ua Donnchadha
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
