School: Pitfield, Inis (roll number 11091)
- Location:
- Cloondrinagh, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Maonaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0606, Page 144
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- (continued from previous page)The corpse did not move so he ran past it and knocked it and rang the bell. He then went home and went to bed.
The parson asked the old man on the following day how Jack got on.The father said he was not frightened "Send him again," said the parson, "and I might frighten him."The next night the parson himself stood on the stairs with a good stick.
Jack came, and said, "I beg your pardon, I must go up and ring the bell."
The parson said nothing but stood his ground. Jack thought to move on and the parson up with the stick and hit him a wallap across the head.
Jack rushed in and seized the parson and flung him out through the window which was thirty feet from the ground.
He went home and told his father all about it.
It was then the father told him it was the parson and that he was there to frighten him and that now, Jack had him killed and he would be surely hanged if found in the country.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eily Roche
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lavally, Co. Clare
- Informant
- John O' Neill
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 73
- Address
- Lavally, Co. Clare
