School: Killadangan (roll number 4854)

Location:
Killadangan, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Máire Bean Uí Domhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0138C, Page 02_019

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  1. One day a woman was walking along a road, and she met a minister who said, "I'll give you five pounds to let me sleep in your house to night". She consented, went further on her journey and met another minister, consented to his request, and also to a third, and got her £15. On going home she told her husband who said, "Ah Mary, mo chroidhe, I'll settle them, the devils, when they come, tell them to go to the room, and when they enter I'll kill them one by one." At 8.o.c. The first one arrived, and the woman said, "Go up there, and when he went to the door he was killed, the second got the same, and so also did the third and they were thrown under the bed. "Now", said the wife, "What shall we
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nan Nolan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cloonagh, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Pat Gibbons
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    78
    Address
    Prospect, Co. Mayo