School: Cuinche
- Location:
- Quin, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Gríobhtha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0595, Page 179
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- The belief that ghosts frequent graveyards makes people afraid to pass them at night. Jokes have often been played on those who are very nervous.
After the death of a man in Quin a neighbour dressed himself in the clothes of the dead man. He walked from the Abbey towards the road at a time when a certain man was due to leave the village.
On seeing the "ghost" the man returned to the house he had left and told his story. The same thing happened for a week but some men found out who the man was.
- Collector
- Lily Gaffney
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Grath
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Quin, Co. Clare
