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School: Ballybunion Convent (roll number 13233)

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Ballybunnion, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
An tSr. Aodán
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    About thirty years ago on Christmas night a man in Beale had to leave his own house and he had to take his candle in his hand to a neighbour's house, because he was hunted by ghosts who asked him to leave as there was to be a fight that night between the Wrens and the Shines who lived in the neighbourhood some year before. As he and his sister were leaving, a man whom they knew to be dead of years offered to lead them and when they went out in the yard, he had to divide the crowd to allow
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Shelia Sheahan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Beal Middle, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    Mrs M. Sheahan
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    52
    Address
    Beal Middle, Co. Kerry