School: Rear Cross, Newport (roll number 12124)
- Location:
- Rear Cross, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Pilib Ó Muireadhaigh
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- (continued from previous page)ass I have never met".Tessie Quigley, Minacrea, Lackamore, Newport, Co. Limerick
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Philip Quigley, Minacrea, Lackamore, Newport, Co. Limerick.
- One day a man named William Carney, townland of Baurnadomeeny, parish of Kilcommon, Co. Tipperary met a ghost and the ghost said to him "I will eat you William Carney". William said to the ghost "you have no other appearance". Joan O'Toole, Shanbally, Rear Cross, Newport, Co. Tipperary
Material obtained from:-
Denis O'Toole, Shanbally, Rear Cross, Newport, Co. Tipperary - Collector
- Joan O' Toole
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Shanballyedmond, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Denis O' Toole
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Shanballyedmond, Co. Tipperary
- There was a priest one time and his maid went to a next door neighbours house to a dance and the priest heard of it. He came to see was she there. He knocked at the door and said "Good Night Peter". "Good Night Father" said the man. "Have you my maid here" said the priest. "Yes Father," said the man . "And why have you," said the priest.
"I have a little amusement here," said the man. "You should have amusement without my maid," said the priest. The priest struck the man of the house. They beat one another out of the house.
All the amusements were all over. It was a common man dressed like a priest.(continues on next page)
