School: Keelogues (roll number 13183)
- Location:
- Keeloges New, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Eibhlín Ní Cheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0121, Page 7
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- An old beggar woman was looking for lodging one dark night. She was passing through a bog called Portdarach. What would she see in the lonely bog but the figure of a woman without a head, standing near a rock. She almost died of fright, but she succeeded in making her way to a cottage where she told what she had seen. The people in the cottage told her that it was the figure of a Ghost of a tinker's wife who had been killed by her husband a hundred years(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Mc Hale
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bellavary, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Patrick Sweeney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Keeloges New, Co. Mayo
