School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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A Story
“One night Paddy Farrell was going up to Killanona for the priest, and as he was going up at the Derryfadda Cross when great shouting and laughing began trying to delay him.”
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A story
One night Paddy Farrell was going up to Killanena for the priest, and as he was going up at the Derryfadda Cross when great shouting and laughing began trying to delay him.He kept on and still the laughing and shouting began louder.
So he brought the priest and the person was dead.The priest said it was the devil who was trying to delay him so that the sick person would die perhaps in mortal sin.
- Collector
- Bridget Keely
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Slieveanore, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Namara
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 42
- Address
- Flagmount, Co. Clare