School: Cluain Meacan (roll number 11451)

Location:
Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Liam Ó Catháin

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0406, Page 273

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Once upon a time there was a house haunted and there was a brave man in the district and he came to the house and he said he would stay up for the night. He stayed up and in twelve o'clock the cock crew and a woman came in with a dead man and she told him to peel all the skin off of the dead man. Then she went away and he did not know what to do. He tried to peel the skin off of the man but he could not. The next day a woman came in again with a bottle and she told him to rub it to the man and he could peel off the skin of him

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Collector
Betty Doyle
Gender
female
Age
56
Address
Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry
Informant
John Doyle
Gender
male
Address
Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry
Language
English