School: Tullow (Monastery)
- Location:
- Tullow, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: Br. Míchéal Ó Maoileoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0908, Page 057
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- There is a funny story told locally of a man who is known to all as "Jack Fat".
Jack was taken to the workhouse in Carlow and there he became ill.
He fell into a kind of sleeping sickness which was supposed to be very common at this time.
He was taken for dead and placed in the dead-house where he lay for about a day. The undertaker came that evening to put the body in the coffin and worked by the light of a candle.
With the jolting of the body Jack became conscious and sat up in the coffin and began to complain about what they were doing with him. The undertaker took fright on seeing the supposed dead-man dressed in a brown habit with a rosary beads in his hand sit up and address him.
Jack had been working(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Tobin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tullow, Co. Carlow
- Informant
- Patrick Tobin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tullow, Co. Carlow
