Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 1)
- Date
- 1937
- Collector
- Locations
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0407, Page 0075
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOn this page
- (continued from previous page)myths afterwards during evening
devotions, novice was heard in Father James' Bon & a suppressed cough. To the rumour was circulated that the apparition was that of Father Sowan, the PP who replaced Father James & who had only lived for 3 months after his appointment. The whole parrish was mystified,terror striked & not one of us would go out after dark " for love or money" The attendance at the evening devotions fell to a dozen: no exhalation of the priests could prevail on the people to attend.
And the black ghost love deported & left no trace of her identity if it were not for on brave God fearing man (MIke Somers, see paqe suora) He lay in wait for her night after night until finally "he got his opportunity" on the high road & clapped her in his arms
"Are you Miss Robinson?"
"I am, Mike"
"Why did you come back"
" I came back to see if the people praying for poor Father James"
She had been hiding by with old John Byane & his sister (see page )
Thus was another ghost laid.
How many of our ghost are poor lonely men on the run their friends or from Justice,
