School: Bun Machan
- Teacher: Íde, Bean Uí Chobhthaigh
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- (continued from previous page)when they went to the bedside he was dead.
- One night there was a man sitting by his fireside. This man was very nervous for he had often hard of ghosts. He had a bucket of coal alongside him. He lit his pipe and started to smoke. He got a paper and began to read. He laid his pipe down in the bucket of coal. Hearing steps behind him, he looked around but saw nothing. He started to read away again. He heard the footsteps all the time behind him. He was getting very frightened. He looked in the corner for his pipe but there was no sign of the bucket of coal or the pipe. The bucket and the pipe were put outside the door by the ghost of the man who had lived there before he himself came there.
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- Collector
- Daniel Gambon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lisnageragh, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- Mrs Gambon
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- c. 40
- Occupation
- Gardener's wife
- Address
- Lisnageragh, Co. Waterford
