School: Cloichín an Mhargaidh
- Location:
- Clogheen Market, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Teacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0573, Page 359
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- There was a very holy man named Larry Kiely. He used to visit graveyards very often at night. One night he was returning from Shantahan graveyards when two dogs and a man leaped at him. He had a rosary beads in his hand and if he had dropped it he would have been killed, as he afterwards said. When he came to my great-grandfathers house, he knocked at the door. My great-grandfather put on his trousers and went to the door.
"Who's there" he asked
"Larry" was the answer
"What are you doing at this hour of night, Wait a second till I light a candle"
If you light a candle or anything else I will lose my life. If the fire is lighting throw a red cinder into a bucket of water."
My great-grandfather did as he was told, then opened the door. As soon as he did the dogs went away and Larry fell in a faint.
- Collector
- William Moore
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs E. Moore
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Clogheen, Co. Tipperary
