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1. A Strange Happening

   

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   When my grandfather was a little boy about five years old this strange thing happened. He remembered it distinctly and often told it. His father had a work-man employed (man) named Thady Meehan. Thady went to his own home on a certain Saturday evening and hadn’t returned on Sunday at night fall. His mother decided that they all should go and visit her mother who lived in the same townland, so the fire was raked, and the door locked, and his father mother and himself went to ramble, as is said here, to his Grandmothers. All went well till between eight and nine o’clock who should lift the latch and come in but Thady Meehan. After the usual greetings, Thady was asked, how he knew where to find them. “Oh, says he “ I was down at the house and ould [sic] Biddy wouldn’t let one in”. “Ould Biddy,” they explained “where is she ?” yonder sitting at the fire

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Moira Mc Girr

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Ballykillowen, Co. Donegal

   Informant

   John Gallagher

   Relation

   Grandparent

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Rossilly Barr, Co. Donegal