School: Cnoc Luinge (C.) (roll number 11665)
- Location:
- Knocklong, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Siobhán Ní Néill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0510, Page 046
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- (continued from previous page)said to him "I can't let you in Will you have dealing with another old gentleman and go to him he has the best right to you. "All right," says Will, "I'll go down to my friend below stairs.
He went down and knocked at the door and some one asked who was there. "Tell him, says Will. "Tis his old friend Will hooper, "Don't let that fellow in here or he'll rise damnation among us all. " "It can't be, "says Will, "you are doing to leave me out here in the cold and it so dark.
Light him a wad, " says he, " and give it to him, and let him go away out of that. So Will rook the wad in his hand and he is going around the world to this day as "Will-o'-the-Wisp.
Told by:-
Written by:- Mrs. Twomey
Teresa Curtis Railway View
Knocklong.
- Collector
- Teresa Curtis
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Twomey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knocklong, Co. Limerick
