School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceann tSáile (roll number 4572)

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1. Bob Driscoll's House (continued)

   

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   Guard Well and was kept by a family named Barnes, Wm Smith O Brien stayed for a day when he was travelling around the country preparing for the Rising. I do not know how he came to the town, but my informent said that he left by the mail coach to Cork.

   

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2. A Mysterious Light

   

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   In the early part of the last century there existed a village at Kilcaha where to day there is not a sign of a house. The people of this place looking across the creek towards a house at Mitchelstown now occupied by Mr Tim O Leary and in which then lived Fr Randal Hurley P.P. Clontead noticed that the thatched house of the priest was surrounded by a brilliant light. On the same night Fr Hurley died.

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   Topics

   1. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)
   2. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
         1. penal times (~4,335)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Maighréad Ní Mhathghamhna

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Séamus Breathnach

   Gender

   Male