School: Barratitoppy (roll number 14664)
- Location:
- Barratitoppy Lower, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: S. Ó Néill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0954, Page 110
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- Most people say that there is a ghost in Pat Treanor's lough. It comes in the appearance of an old witch. She had a red handkerchief tied on her head. A story is told about her coming to frighten a man. One day a man called Mick Treanor was in the bog. He was standing at the edge of the lough. To his surprise what came walking out of the lough but a woman. She ran after him for some distance. She had a child trailing it after her. When she saw she could not get hold of him she said "Take your time I have sweets for you". But he ran home and never came back.
I never heard tell of any other stories about wonderful animals.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Elizabeth Murray
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockballyroney, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Eugene Murray
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 52
- Address
- Knockballyroney, Co. Monaghan
