School: Eiscreach (roll number 13945)
- Location:
- Eskeragh, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Raghallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0153, Page 159
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- (continued from previous page)matter. Then he said that I was not the first one to get a "fret in that self same place. The strange thing about it is that nobody is given a start there except of "duskess" or a half - an - hour after, or thereabouts.I brought the cattle home and threw them a "pelick" of hay, and mind mind you the "done" alright for me, though I throught "mesel" that a day's good they'd never do, they got such a fright that evening. Some people don't believe in ghost stories but let me tell you this - if they saw all I "seen" and heard all I heard they'd mighty soon change their minds.
- Collector
- Seán S. Ó Raghallaigh
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Address
- Eskeragh, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Patrick O' Boyle
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 27
- Address
- Corvoderry, Co. Mayo
