School: Lios Tuathail Buachaillí
- Location:
- Listowel, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Brian Mac Mathúna
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- Barry William
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Listowel, Co. Kerry
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- John Barry
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 49
- Address
- Listowel, Co. Kerry
- Johnny Buckley told me that on Little Christmas night twelve o'clock water turns into wine and that if you watch it you would drop dead. I heard that one night two men stayed up to watch the water turn to wine. When twelve o'clock struck one man was reading a paper but the other was watching it. Then the water turned to wine and the man who watched it dropped dead. They leave water on a bible on Little Christmas night in every house
