School: Cill na dTor, Dún Mánmhaí (roll number 16254)
- Location:
- Kilnadur, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Donnabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0305, Page 139
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- (continued from previous page)to accept her offer of a pinch of snuff.
This went on for years until at length an old man was passing by this bridge between two and three o'clock on a cold December morning. The woman was there as usual with the box of snuff in her hand. The man approached her, took a pinch of snuff and said: "May the Lord have mercy on your soul and on the souls of the seven generations who have gone before you."
The woman answered: "Welcome in your health and strength. I am free now."
She was never seen again.
- A carman was travelling to Cork with four firkins of salted butter.
He had travelled from Bantry and it was after midnight when he reached Lisheenleigh (already mentioned). He saw a woman wearing a black shawl walking along. He offered her a drive. She sat into the cart but when the horse tried to move on again it could not pull the cart. It pulled(continues on next page) - Informant
- Mrs O' Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
