School: Caisleán Nua (C) (roll number 15772)
- Location:
- Newcastle, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Staic
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0079, Page 266
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- There was an old house Knock-brack in which a ghost inhabited. There were many stories connected with the ghost. Once when the people of the house were eating their supper the knives and forks were lifted off the table another time a group of people dressed in black entered the house and went out again through the wall. They left the house and built another. No one ever bought that house and the family heard afterwards that a man named Gaston was killed there and the murderer was never found.
- There was an old fort over in Learratubber in the side of a hill. Once one of the Burkes was ploughing there when he came near the fort(continues on next page)
