School: Béal Átha Gearr
- Location:
- Ballygar, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Labhrás Ó Síoráin
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- (continued from previous page)one of her friends house. She stayed at her cousins house for nine or ten months. Then she got married to another man and they had one child. Some time after this the man to whom she was first going to be married to died.
One night as this woman was out spreading clothes she saw the ghost of the boy who was dead and he said to her that she would have to marry him now when she did not marry him when he was alive. He also said to her that she would have to come with him right away. The woman became frightened at this and she tried to run away from him but she was unable for she was spellbound. She then asked him to give her one year to rear her child and so he did.
The day that the year was up the woman got a headache . Her husband and the other people thought(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Miceál Mac Giollacomáin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Barnacurra, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Máire Ní Giollacomáin
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 71
- Address
- Barnacurra, Co. Galway
