School: Loch Measca
- Location:
- Cathair Roibeird, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Máire, Bean an Bhrúnaigh
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- (continued from previous page)on the side of the road moaning. He went to the old man and asked him what was wrong with him. The old man told him that he had some certain prayers to say, and he was not able to say them, so the young doctor took pity on him and said them for him. The prayers that he said were the same ones that Death gave him to say, so as soon as he had the last of them said, the old man stood up and said to the young doctor "I am Death, so now you must die."
- Collector
- Beatrice Casey
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mattie Casey
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 52
- Address
- An Chraobhach Láir, Co. Mhaigh Eo
