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1. Ghosts

   

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   Ghosts according to the local people have been seen from time to time in many places. About 50 years in the school side of Doonamona Cross roads a ghost or spirit of some kind was said to be "living" under a gullet crossing the road. He had been banished from a dwelling house near the place which he was haunting by a priest. The Cóiste Bodhar route was from the mile stone at Thomastown though the "villages" of Cnoc-Buide, Poll a Lina, Lis blowick by the old road to Donamona. The following I had from Mrs. Evelyn Gallivan teacher in this school. I give the story in her own words.

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   1. gníomhairí (~1)
      1. neacha neamhshaolta agus osnádúrtha (~14,864)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Micheál Ó Gealbháin

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   Mrs Garry

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   75

   Address

   An Cnoc Buí, Co. Mhaigh Eo

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   “When I came to Clogher I took lodgings in the village of Knockboy with Mr Durkan.”

   

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   When I came to Clogher I took lodgings in the "village of Knockboy" with Mrs. Durkan. Coming from the town and hardly knowing anyone in the place I though it rather lonely at first, and to make the time pleasanter for me Mrs. Brennan of Clogher often invited me to spend the evening with them, for which

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