School: Scoil na gCeithre Máighistrí, Dún na nGall (roll number 14247)
- Location:
- Copany, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Cathal Mag Fhionntaigh

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1035, Page 259
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- One night a man was coming home from rambling. When he came near a lake a black man came out from it and walked along with him and never spoke. Suddenly he disappeared.Then the other man got afraid and he ran into a house near by.He told the people of the house about what he had seen and they said when that ghost appeared the person who saw it was supposed to die within a fortnight.The poor man made his way home and he was dead inside the fortnight.All the neighbours(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Mc Cadden
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 11
- Informant
- Patrick Welsh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Drummenny Middle, Co. Donegal