School: Gusserane

Location:
Gusserane, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
Mrs Corish
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0872, Page 163

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    that his mother told him. The boy told the priest that the woman dead twenty year before that
    One night in winter a woman named Mrs Doyle was dying and the priest was sent for. The priest did not come for about three hours after he getting word. He came about one o'clock in the night and there were twins sitting up in a cradle and the mother was dead in the bed beside them. The twins had two blessed candles in their hands. When the priest went in the two candles went out and when the priest would go out again the candles would light.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. narratives (~478)
        1. religious tales (~1,085)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    May Codd
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Yoletown, Co. Wexford
    Informant
    Mr James Codd
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Yoletown, Co. Wexford