School: Fearglass (roll number 15616)

Location:
Fearglass South, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Proinnsias Ó Floinn
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  1. There are two big trees in Paddy Rogan's field and there is a ghost beside it. Tom Cassells saw him and he was a big black man.
    There is a ghost in Pat Dunne's byre. It is a woman and she stays about the house in the day-time and at night she sits on a stone in the lane.
    There is a ghost over from James Dolan's where Kearney was killed, and it is in the form of a dog.
    There is a ghost in Willie Reilly's field. Peter Durone saw her, and it was Willie Reilly's sister, that was drowned.
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    There is a fort in Joe O'Neils field and the people that lived there before them had a jolly cow and every time they milked the cow a child would start to cry and a woman would say keep quiet the jolly cow will soon be milked as soon as she would be milke

    There is a fort in Joe O'Neils field and the people that lived there before them had a polly cow and every time they milked the cow a child would start to cry and a woman would say keep quiet the polly cow will soon be milked as soon as she would be milked no matter what they did she would spill the
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    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patrick J. Bohan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Gubadorris, Co. Leitrim