School: Cnoc na Manach, An Mhainistir Bhán, Cionn tSáile (roll number 1391)
- Location:
- Knocknamanagh, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Dáithí de Barra
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- (continued from previous page)strand as the tide would be out, but he was delayed and went by the road to Knocknamana. I waited up for him for some time then went to bed and determined not to fall asleep until he came. I was only a few minutes in bed when I thought I heard him come into the room and undress himself and when getting into bed he pulled most of the bedclothes off. I asked him what did he want pulling them off for. As he made no answer I sat up and found he was not there at all and that the room was all lighted up and large like a church and a lot of priests in a sort of dull grey habits chanting High Mass which I heard distinctly though deaf. I got frightened and covered up my head and began to sweat profusely. I told Father Gould curate of Tracton and now P.P. Kilmichael.
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- Collector
- Daniel Corrigan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Laharran, Co. Cork
