Volume: CBÉ 0463 (Part 2)
- Date
- 1937–1938
- Collector
- Location
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- (continued from previous page)and his face was turned round on his shoulders.
- During the Famine, a Clergyman was on his way to a Sick Call at Tarmon. The Clergyman had taken his little dog with him and made a short cut through S ___'s Demesne to the house where the person lay dying.
When passing through this demesne the clergyman met S___ who strongly objected to dogs on his demesne. Nor, was he a lover of the Catholic Religion. Accosting the Clergyman he called the Clergyman, a "Black-guard".
On the Sunday following, this Clergyman referred to it from the pulpit- saying, "S__ called me a Black - guard - but here from the pulpit , I call him a Blackguard, and I'll stick a plaster on his back that he cannot remove."
On the Thursday after this announcement from the pulpit S__s(continues on next page)