School: Tobar Pheadair (roll number 4789)
- Location:
- Peterswell, Co. Galway
- Teacher: P.S. Ó Muireadhaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0059, Page 0523
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- One evening there was a man returning from his work.
On his way home he passed by a house where there was a little boy very sick. Suddenly he heard a noise as if two lids of coffins would clap together.
Then he saw a black shadow going in over the wall. He went along and he met another man and he said to him that the little boy must be dead, and he died that night.
One day the people were coming from second mass there were two of them going along together.
A rousing of one of them died shortly before that.
When they were going to part they stood a little while talking and they saw the dead person coming along with a basked of flowers in his hand and he dressed in a monk's clothes.
When he came near them he shook hands to the cousins and disappeared.
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- Informant
- John Fahy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 58
- Occupations
- Saor
- Siúinéir
- Address
- Lurgan, Co. Galway
