School: St Columba's, Buncrana

Location:
Buncrana, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Eoghan Ua Gallchobhair
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1111, Page 164

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1111, Page 164

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: St Columba's, Buncrana
  2. XML Page 164
  3. XML “A Story”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. The time there was a ghost or something like that up in Micky Mc Carron's of Lisfannon, two men went up to see if there were anything there at all. At first they stood at the door talking to Micky about the weather for did not like to go in to the house at first but after a while they went in and they sat down at the fire, and they started to talk about the thing that was bout the house.
    The all of a sudden a turf that was threw up by somebody knocked the pipe out of one of the men's mouth which he was smoking and the (main) man blamed it on the other man. But the other man said it was not him that threw the turf. The all of a sudden again the girl that was sitting at the fire also started yelling and it took the three men all the strength they had to hold her in the house for there was something pulling her out of the house, but the men held on to her and kept her in and after awhile the thing stopped pulling her and when it stopped the men soon got out of the house not to go back again.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Colm Quigley
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Hugh Quigley
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Buncrana, Co. Donegal