School: Knocknagilla
- Location:
- Cnoc na gCoileach, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: T. Gilchrist
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- (continued from previous page)but when he started to move, he found that he was fastened there. He took out his beads and started to pray, and after a while he found that he could move. He went back home and he was dead the next day.
When Thomas Smith, then a boy and old Master McDonald, we're going on a ceilidh to Andrew Smith's, they were much frightened, when two women started to walk behind them.
When the two men stood, the women stood, and when they walked quick so did the women. When they reached Andrew Smith's they stood up on two barrells and shouted "the Lord between us and all danger" and the ghosts vanished.
Another night the same two men, heard someone walking behind them and when they looked behind, there was nothing to be seen. When they(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eugene Smith
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Kate Smith
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Dromainn Bhán, Co. an Chabháin
