School: Coill Beithne (C.), Baile Mhistéala (roll number 11266)

Location:
Kilbeheny, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
-
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0514, Page 297

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0514, Page 297

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Coill Beithne (C.), Baile Mhistéala
  2. XML Page 297
  3. XML (no title)

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. (no title)

    A poor man in Carhue could make no butter and it was supposed that a neighbour had made 'pishogues' for him.

    A poor man in Carhue could make no butter and it was supposed that a neighbours had made 'pisogues' for him.
    He spent all he had on masses trying to get the evil remedied. A curate who was in the parish was doing his best for him. This priest left and went to Kilcummin. Things went from bad to worse with the poor man and after a time he went to see the priest who had left the parish.
    The story goes that the priest told him to remain in the house with his cow on a certain night and that he would see the person who was doing him harm. He watched and twas his own father (who was dead) he saw. He mentioned the matter to some people who advised him to have a look at his father's grave. He went into Brigown where his father was buried opened the grave and found the arm, from the elbow down, missing from the corpse.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
    2. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    John Ahrne
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    68
    Address
    Garryvurragha, Co. Limerick