School: Garracloon (roll number 6852)
- Location:
- Garrycloonagh, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: James J. Clarke
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0148, Page 12
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- A man was coming from town at eleven o'clock at night. He went into a house on the side of the road. It was one o'clock when he left. He saw something in white and he went across the ditch. When he was across the ditch the thing came and walked with him.
When he was about one mile from his own house it stopped and the man stopped also. The ghost said that he would meet him again on the 11th December. The man went astray and he did not know where he was until he turned his coat inside out. He got home alright but he told the priest. The priest told him to go and meet the ghost. When he went to the place to meet the goat was not there.
- Collector
- Mary Keane
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Crannagh, Co. Mayo
