School: Beann-chorr (roll number 13808)
- Location:
- Banagher, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Hairt
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- Story - The Dead Returnedonce upon a time there lived was a man and his wife and they were very happy. After a while the man died.
He was about three months dead when one night a knock came to the door. The woman opened it, and her husband who was dead came in. He said he would not go to heaven without all the money he left after him. When he was dying he left about three hundred pounds. The woman said she had only seventy pounds in the house and that she would go to the bank the next day to get the rest of the money.
Next day she went to the bank for the money. When she(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Mc Lean
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballygarry, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Pat Lynn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballygarry, Co. Mayo
