School: Leithead (roll number 5480)
- Location:
- Lehid, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0462, Page 155
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“Years ago a woman who returned from America took rooms in Miss O'Brien's of Castletown.”
Years ago a woman who returned from America took rooms in Miss O'Brien's of Castletown. She liked to live there. Her husband and two children were dead. She felt unwell and sent to New York for a younger sister to care her. One morning an old man dressed like a tradesman walked into the Cannon's Hall and asked the housekeeper was a priest in as there was a person dying in St Joseph's Boat. She said there was and went to call a priest who was in his room. The priest told her tell the messeger wait. When she came back the man was gone(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rita O' Shea
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Julia O' Shea
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 67