School: Landsdowne (Cuar na gCoileach) (roll number 6091)

Location:
Coornagillagh, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Eibhlín, Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
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    Mrs Moynahan Bonane dead for the past two years or so told this story to Ms S. O' Sullivan Derrinid, Tuosist on a certain night...

    Mrs Moynahan Bonane dead for the past two years or so told this story to Ms S. O' Sullivan Derrinid, Tuosist on a certain night that they both were up at night caring Mrs Monaghans daughter who was also Mrs O'Sullivan's brother's wife. She told her that on a certain year she found all her milk in the pans sprinkled with blood every morning when she'd go into her dairy. She described it as if a person got a brush & sprinkled all the milk with blood. This happened for a long while & at last she told the Priest Professor Dr Mc Carthy then in Maynooth her story and she go him to say a Mass asking him to pray that this would cease & that she could see her pans of milk normal once more & she'd have butter as before this awful visitation of misfortune on her milk & butter.
    The Mass was said & she had no cause of complaint about her milk or butter ever after.
    Mrs O'Sullivan was married in Tuosist but her parents lived in the adjacent parish of Bonane. Her
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