School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Caiseal (roll number 581)
- Location:
- Cashel, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An Mháthair Máighréad
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0556, Page 005
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- Once upon a time, a woman & her husband lived beside The Rock of Cashel. The man used to take a drop & the wife did not like this at all. At last she made up her mind to give him a fright to see the effect it would have on him.One night she dressed up as a ghost by putting a white sheet around her. She sat on a certain stile by which her husband would have to pass. About 12 o'clock - midnight - the husband came along staggering & singing as usual. Suddenly he spied the white object on the stile."Good-night," he said, quite unconcerned. "Ochón! Ochón!" groaned the object."Who are ye, anyway?" he said calmly.(continues on next page)
