School: Cill Cruim / Killocrim (roll number 17072)
- Location:
- Killacrim, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Micheál Óg Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0407D, Page 16_053
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- (continued from previous page)twelve o'clock. He was coming through the field in which the fort was in, for it was a short cut to his house. The path in which he had to go was only about five feet from the passage of the fort. As he was just about to pass the door of the fort, he saw standing on the passage before him a woman dressed in brown and white hair and there was a kight coming from her eyes and she held a stick in her white hands. She made a glaum and caught the man and she beat the man until he was black. It was morning when he arrived home. He went to bed and the following day he died.
The woman was the late wife of Patrick Dillon of(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Pádraig Bairéad
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killacrim, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Michael Barrett
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gortnaminsha, Co. Kerry
