Volume: CBÉ 0220 (Part 3)

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   “Wan night when my little child was dying I went to Nanny...”

   

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   for me" she says to herself; she thought all the time 'twas ould Moll was there.
   When she cam in home Moll was inside before her.
   "How long are you here"? says Nanny
   "Yerra I was here, child, when your mother sent you to Kilworth" says Moll.
   "Weren't you up the road before me and didn't you turn up the gulley?" says Nanny
   "Muire, I suppose I was" says she, "and I went up the gulley home and I came down around here"
   Moll know well 'twas something she saw and she didn't want to frighten her.

   

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2. Noises in a House

   

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   Noises in a House
   There was a man wan time and he used to live alone. He was a big farmer and a wealthy man. Every night he couldn't sleep for hours with noise and hammering in the house.
   He told the priest about it and he came and read over the place. But I suppose he didn't use his power, for the noise was as bad as ever. Some time after the priest called

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   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   Béarla

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Mrs Hannah Brackett