School: Ballykilmurry
- Location:
- Ballykilmurry, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Bean Uí Odhráin
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“Once upon a time there was a Killina Priest asked to offer up Mass for a certain person...”
(continued from previous page)night the Priest and the man stayed in the chapel and at twelve Oclock the same Priest appeared and he said was there anyone to serve Mass. The Priest said there was and somebody to say it so he went up to the Altar and asked him what was his troubles so he told him he got an offering for a Mass and that he died before the Mass was said and that he was in Purgatory for years and would until the Mass was said. The parish Priest offered the Mass the next morning and the Priest was never seen again.
- Collector
- Donal O' Brien
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballynamire, Co. Offaly