School: Camross, Mountrath
- Location:
- Camross, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Heifernáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0826, Page 317
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Long ago there was a house which no one liked to live in because there was a haunted room in it After a while a family bought it who knew nothing about the haunted room. One day they were expecting visitors and the servant was sent to clean up the haunted room. She was a long time upstairs and they were wondering what was keeping her. They went up and they found her dead on the floor and she had a terrible queer look on her face. No one would go in to the room after. One night the man of the house said he would sleep in it. So he went in to sleep in it and as he kept a light lighting and again by(continues on next page)