School: Bunlahy, Granard
- Location:
- Bunlahy, Co. Longford
- Teachers: Mrs Brady Cáit Bean Uí Bhrádaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0765, Page 108
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wound was there plain to be seen. This breast never healed but kept in a running sore from that till the day of his death. He lived for some years, but all the same he didn't bring a long life with him, but the dark woman never troubled him after. These two stories were told by Johnnie Kelly, a labourer, a native of Bunlahy who died about 1914 aged 96.
He used to say that at "the time of the Public Works" (Famine) he, Mickey Gaffney, Frank Mac Govern, and several other men from the district worked with Mulligan and saw the wound in his breast. Whenever Johnnie heard anyone talk of seeing a moving light at night he would tell them it's nothing but Jack an the Lanthorn and then he would tell the story of how Jack tricked the Devil
- Informant
- Johnnie Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 96
- Address
- Bunlahy, Co. Longford
