School: Glenderry (roll number 10403)
- Location:
- Glenderry, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Peadar Ó Gleathbhúir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0417C, Page 04_037
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- (continued from previous page)feeding the dead man with the spoon. He came out from the corpse again and was walking around the graveyard and he saw over in the graveyard a dark corner a skeleton sitting down. He caught a stone and threw it at the skeleton and broke his leg. As the morning broke he told the people he did not get a fright. The he saw the dead having a dance and he went with them and there was a doctor there. He got a rabbits heart and put in the rabbits heart and woke him up again. He then set the dogs after him and asked(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joseph Lucid
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John Corridon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 35
- Address
- Glenderry, Co. Kerry
