School: Áth Treasna (C.)
- Location:
- Áth Trasna, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Mhurthuile
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- Long ago a man was [?]oving at a house about a mile from where he lived. One night he was coming home through fields alone and there was no
moon. He soon found he had gone astray and was walking through a bog.
He tried to make his way out
of it but he could not it was too dark.
He was just sitting down to stay untill morning. When a light suddenly appeared and lit the place around him. Then the
went slowly before him, he walked after it.
The light led him out of the
bog to the fields he had left, and
through the fields to the road to
which he had intended to go at first. When the light reached the road, the man saw it was his own brother who was(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Cáit Ní Catháin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Scairtín Íochtarach, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Mrs F. Keane
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Scairtín Íochtarach, Co. Chorcaí
