School: Killea (roll number 3219)
- Location:
- Killea, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Séamus Mac Coilín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0195, Page 191
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- (continued from previous page)usual home returning time the image was carried to a bridge in the neighbourhood called the Alt Bridge and placed on a stump of a previously cut tree. A lighted candle was placed behind it giving it a hideous appearence. When the man approach the bridge he beheld the "ghost." He did not give it a second look but turned back and ran home as fast as his legs could carry him, not to pass that way for many weeks after.
- Once upon a time in the same house there lived three brothers who slept in the same bed. The eldest boy was the last to go to bed and he had hacked feet and wore socks on him in bed. The second boy felt the hairy feet and thought it was a ghost. The youngest felt the same and thought the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nellie Gallagher
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glenkeel, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- John Gordon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lugasnaghta, Co. Leitrim
