School: Scoil na mBráthar, Loch Garman (roll number 16742)

Location:
Wexford, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
An Br. D. C. Ó hÉilighe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0880, Page 369

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    and just as he entered the street, he asked a man, "who is dead?" "That's John Lambert, may the Lord have mercy on him", the man answered. Little did he know that this was the "fairy funeral". A week later he died and his funeral passed in the very same direction that the "fairy funeral" went.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Shudell
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Wexford, Co. Wexford
    Informant
    William Thomas
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    73
    Address
    Wexford, Co. Wexford