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School: Aughacashel (roll number 15356)

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Aghacashel, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Joseph Conifry
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0211, Page 473

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  1. An Old Harper (continued)

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  2. A Strange Light

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    I don't believe in ghosts or fairies but I'll tell you a funny thing that happened to me one night. This night - it is about 40 or 45 years ago now - I was in old Pat Doyle's of Drumgood which is in the next townland to Aughaslane. I stayed in it till 12 oclock that night. This house had the name[?] of "lights" being about it at night.
    Right enough I often saw the lights myself running along the fields and then taking sudden jumps
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