School: Cill Chais, Cluain Meala (roll number 596)
- Location:
- Kilcash, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Dubhghail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0568, Page 274
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- (continued from previous page)must go out to tell the bees of the death otherwise the bees will leave.
- 1 There was a man called Paddy Rielly who was living around here and working with Mrs Foley Kilnoracy. His wife was sick and in danger of death. One night wile a neighbour visited his wife, he went unknown to them to the church yard and dug the plot for his wife's grave. Wh he returned his wife had recovered The next week himself was buried in that grave, but in two months his wife lay beside him.
May Ryan, Kilcash.
2. Another man who lived around here after his relations death went up to a mountain and out out a small wall of rock and placed it over his relations grave. This man got a pain in his back which he never got rid of. This man's name was Paddy Nugent and he lived in Kilnoracy.
May Ryan. - Collector
- May Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilcash, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs Foley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kylanoreashy, Co. Tipperary
