School: Stranorlar
- Location:
- Stranorlar, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Giolla Chomhghaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1096, Page 97
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“One night I went to Letterkenny with a priest named Father Walker.”
One night I went to Letterkenny with a priest named Father Walker. When we arrived it was near twelve oclock. Father Walker at once went to an hotel to get something to eat before twelve oclock as he had to say holy Mass next morning. He told me to wait as he was going to give me some whiskey so as to scare away any ghosts which might come in my way.
About a mile out of the town I began to get afraid so I got out of the car and looked down the road. I nearly fainted at the sight I saw. It was a big man coming up the road. The man got into the car beside me. For some time I was not looking at him but when I did he had disappeared. When I arrived at Stranorlar the people thought I was a ghost myself.
- Collector
- Mary O' Callaghan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- James Mc Menamin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80