School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceann tSáile (roll number 4572)
- Location:
- Kinsale, Co. Cork
- Teacher: An tSr. De Pazzi
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0320, Page 130
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- (continued from previous page)very drowsy and fell fast asleep.
When he awoke he found that the bells had rung. That was the first time in his life he missed the bells of Rome.
- A house was for sale in the vicinity of Tracton Abbey. It was thought to be on the site of an old Cistercian Monastery and was said to be haunted. Every night at about midnight the chanting of monks was heard. A certain man wished to buy the house, but his family refused to live there on account of the tales they heard of ghosts been seen there. But the father insisted in buying the house saying that as he was stone deaf he could not possibly hear them.
One night his son Bat, went on business to Crosshaven. He told his father he would come back the short way by the strand.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Críostína Ní Bhuachalla
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Athair Mac Suibhne
- Gender
- Male
