School: Pres. Convent, Drogheda (roll number 851)
- Location:
- Drogheda, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Sr. M. Patrick
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- (continued from previous page)a woman was going to a shop. She stood on the stray sod and she was going around the field and she could not get out. The postman was going down the road and he had a light on his bicycle and she followed the light and she got out of the field. If she had not seen the postman's light she would not get ouf of the field until the next morning.
- There is said to be a light called Jack of the lantern which passes down through the fields every night from Donore graveyard. It is a kind of a red light and it is the shape of a lantern. Many people have seen the light and it is still to be seen some nights(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Veronica Browne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Sheephouse, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Mrs Browne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Sheephouse, Co. Meath
