School: Scairt (B.), Cill Dairbhe (roll number 4126)
- Location:
- Scart, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Rinn
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- Father O'Brien was parish priest of Doneraile and he founded the church there. One day he was coming in his little trap towards Shanballymore, and near Carker pike he met an old gentleman named Hill with his carriage and pair in great yoke.
When he came near the priest he drove close to him and the priest moved out of his way almost on the ditch. Then he came out of his little trap and stood on the road and he said to Hill that he would live until "the crows would take him".
He was going to a party to his brothers house and so he continued his journey. When he was returning home he got suddenly ill on the way, and he was never seen outside his own door until he was dead. And two crows were on the steps of the halldoor the day he died. This happened over a hundred years ago.
- Collector
- Peggie Cross
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Informant
- Mrs E. Cross
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 72
- Address
- Kildorrery, Co. Cork
