School: Cluain Meacan (roll number 11451)
- Location:
- Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Liam Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0406, Page 281
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“Once a man lived near a church yard, and there was another house near it too.”
Once a man lived near a church yard, and there was another house near it too. One night a man heard a noise in the room in which he was sleeping. All the pictures in the room fell except one. In the morning when he got up he went to put them up again and when he left the room the one that did not fall down the night before fell down, and behind it there was a letter, and written down in it was "The dead man will rise to night. That night he heard a voice saying "Will you?" and the man said "All right and he disappeared and he was never again seen.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maurice Healy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloontubbrid North, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Maurice Healy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Cloontubbrid North, Co. Kerry