School: Clochar na Trócaire, Moyderwell, Tráighlí
- Location:
- Moyderwell, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: An tSr. Antoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0440, Page 273
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“In a part of the Rathmore district there is a big spacious house. In olden times it was haunted nobody ever lived in its vicinity...”
(continued from previous page)the house afterwards, and it remains a Presbytery at present.
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“Long ago, there lived a man named Sean Com in Craol na Spride about two and a half mile from Castleisland...”
Long ago, there lived a man named Sean Com in Craol na Spride about two and a half mile from Castleisland. He was married to a woman who was bold and wicked. One night they had an argument and she was so bad tempered that she struck him with the tongs and shortly afterwards he died. After a while she pined away and died. When she died her ghost was often seen. One night a man was coming home late from Castleisland and she appeared to him. She knocked him in(continues on next page) - Collector
- Shelia O' Rourke
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs O' Rourke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballymacdonnell, Co. Kerry