School: Na Creaga
- Location:
- Creggs, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Liam Ó Breandáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0015, Page 172
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- Once some men were coming home from a funeral. On their way home they had to cross a graveyard. As they were passing a grave one of them kicked something with his foot, and he saw that it was a human skull. He gave it another kick, but his companions told him not to interfere with it as it was not right to do so. He laughed at this and said "I will kick it from here around the grave-yard." He did so and after this he went home.
That night he went to bed but he became very restless and could not sleep. About twelve o'clock he got up and sat at the fire. A few times he became very uneasy because he thought he saw someone watching him.
At last he looked towards a "loft" in the house. As he did so,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Tommie Fitzmaurice
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coalpits, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Bridget Burke
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coalpits, Co. Galway
