School: Scoil na gCeithre Máighistrí, Dún na nGall (roll number 14247)

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1. A Ghost Story

   

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   Once there was a girl hired in a house in the Pettigo. She always gave some of her pay for mass offerings for the souls in purgatory. One day when she was leaving her place, as her time was up, she found that she had only a few shillings left. At first she wasn’t going to give it for a mass offering, but then she went back to the priest’s house and gave it. As she was going along a man over-took her and she began to talk to him. She told him that she was looking for work. He told her that she

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Máire Siúbhan Nigh Fhionntaigh

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   10

   Informant

   James Curristin

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   71

   Address

   Cormullin, Co. Dhún na nGall