School: Cill Barúin (roll number 10595)
- Location:
- Kilbarron, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Séan C. Ó Ciaráin
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- There is a house on the Beleek road that is supposed to be haunted.
One night when the man of the house was sitting at the fire, he saw a big black man outside the window. First he saw the thumb, and next the other four fingers, and then the whole man.
The same night he went out to the barn, and his cap was lifted off his head three times.
There is a house on the Bundaran road which is supposed to have ghosts about it. The woman of the house used to go for a walk up the lane with a friend, and she used to bring her can to the well to get water, and when she was returning home, it was filled, and it is supposed to be the ghosts. Ghosts are supposed to vanish the moment the cock crew.
Out at Calmin, there were once three(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maggie Cummins
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- John Cummins
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Abbey Island, Co. Donegal
