School: Cluain Eich (roll number 9942)
- Location:
- Clooneagh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Sr. Ó Donnabhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0219, Page 246
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“There was a man named Mathew Nespitt who lived in Derracarna. He was the sheriff of this county.”
(continued from previous page)people often saw him riding in his coach in his shirt-sleeves and without any head.
- One time a man was coming home a lonesome road and as he passed by an old castle a horseman came out of it and pursued him. When the other man got tired out running he turned on the road and made the sign of the cross between himself and rider as he did so the horseman turned on the road and went back into the old castle.
- One night my father and his brother were coming from Drumlish Mill and when they came to Johnston's Bridge they saw a crowd of little men on the road and they all crying. When my father came near them they all went down into the river and they did not hear them again.
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