School: Presentation Monaster, Ceann tSáile
- Location:
- Kinsale, Co. Cork
- Teacher: J. K. O' Connor
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0319, Page 249
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- XML “Granny Fan - An Bhean Feasa”
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“An aged fisherman who while enjoying a smoke by the fire was amazed to hear his cat saying "Give me a smoke”
The scene of the following story is the Worlds End. The date is about seventy or eighty years ago
An aged fisherman while enjoying a smoke by the fire was amazed to hear his cat saying
"Give me a smoke"
The man ran out, told all his neighbours what he had heard, and in this way the story spread all over Kinsale. At the time there lived an old generation who believed that in ancient times cats could speak, and that by listening carefully at night you could understand certain words from the cats - This account of Fanny Newman or Granny Fan is recounted by several persons who were descendants whether direct, or colateral
Fanny Newman was a Protestant and as she died at a ripe old age before 1830 she must have(continues on next page)