School: Glascorn (roll number 16615)
- Location:
- Glascarn, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs Hope
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0736, Page 204
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- (continued from previous page)spirit disappeared.
- There was a man named Michael Gallaher living on the canal line long ago. Every time he went outside the door he had to have a knife because ghosts used to attack him.
Two men were driving from Dysart one dark night. When they arrived at Ballinea Railway Bridge the figure of a man appeared at the side of the cart and walked the whole way with them until they came in sight of Shandona Bridge and then it disappeared.
There is a graveyard in Kilpatrick and it is said that noise of shovels can be heard and(continues on next page) - Informant
- Brigid Ollard
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 72
- Occupation
- Domestic worker
- Address
- Tuitestown, Co. Westmeath
