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School: Adare Convent (roll number 9296)

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Adare, Co. Limerick
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    An incident connected with the Franciscan abbey.
    About forty years ago there was a Scotch maid at Adare manor. She had been very interested in the ruins and had a little book about them. One evening as she was coming round she went into the abbey and she had her head down reading the book. She suddenly raised her head and saw a Franciscan reading his office going round the cloisters. She thought it was a ghost and she screamed and ran for the doorway. The priest called her but she would not come back and
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mona Connolly
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Adare, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    Thomas Connolly
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Adare, Co. Limerick