School: Cloghan (B.), Banagher
- Location:
- Cloghan, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Francis O' Connor
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0816, Page 032
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“At the present day there is a field belonging to Parish Priest of Cloghan on the right side of the road from Cloghan to Galross.”
(continued from previous page)The barrel again. He got afraid and went into the house of a man named Kavanagh. This house was situated in a field some distance off the road. When admitted to the house he fainted and remained there till the following morning. The owner of the field in which this bush was situated ( A Mr. J Doorly Blackmills] had a workman, Tom Connolly who cut down this tree although he was warned by the people. Soon after cutting the bush he fell sick and was sick for three months in the hospital. James Leonard Tonelemone Cloghan told the writer Francis O'Connor Teacher Cloghan Boys school that he saw this bush, that on it was a sort of seat where the ghost was supposed to sit & that no leaves grew on it. In the ground was a spot where the ghost's feet rested & on this the track of the ghost's feet no grass grew.
The ghost looked like a man & was sometimes seen going across the road and out in the priests field.
- Collector
- Francis O' Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Principal
- Collector
- John Robinson
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- James Leonard
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50