School: Goirtín
- Location:
- Gorteen, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Dhubhthaigh
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- (continued from previous page)on the roads and landed where he came from first.
- Long ago there live in Colemanstown, a gentleman who was very fond of nuts. There was also a tailor who was fond of nuts. When the gentleman died, he ordered that they should make a big coffin and fill half of it with nuts.
They did what he told them and they buried him in the graveyard around the monastery in Clonkeen. When the tailor heard this, he went one night and dug up the coffin and sat down on it, eating the nuts. One of the monks came out of the monastery and saw him. The monk ran in and told the other monks that there was a ghost sitting on a coffin eating nuts. When the tailor was coming to the graveyard, he met a man with a sheet. the man said he was going looking for a sheep and he was going to put the sheep in the sheet and carry it home. When the monk told he had seen a ghost, there was an old servant woman in the monastery who had not walked for two years(continues on next page) - Informant
- Ned Connaughton
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 83
- Address
- Temple, Co. Galway
