School: Scoil Mhuire, Béal Átha hAmhnais (roll number 11438)
- Location:
- Ballyhaunis, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: S.T. Ó Maolagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0107, Page 234
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Local Ghost Stories (continued)
“One night my father was coming home from visiting and he had to pass a graveyard,...”
(continued from previous page)if there are ghosts who is afraid of them not me for one person." When my father went to look at the tombstone next morning he got a dog dead on the tombstone.
Local Ghost Stories
“About eighteen years ago my father and mother were staying in a house in Spoddagh, the owner of the house was Edward Lyons and he was dying.”
About eighteen years ago my father and mother were staying in a house in Spoddagh, the owner of the house was Edward Lyons and he was dying.
One night visitors came into the house and the fire was very near quenched so my mother and Mr Lyons were going out to the barn for turf. as they were coming with the turf they saw the old man coming around the rick of hay when they entered the house they heard noise at the doors and windows and an hour later the old man died. - Collector
- Thomas Patrick Caulfield
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Devlis, Co. Mayo