School: Enniscrone (G.) (roll number 13941)
- Location:
- Inishcrone, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Bean de Búrca
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0164, Page 043
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Enniscrone (G.)
- XML Page 043
- XML “Ghost Story”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- 1 Ghosts are to be seen at times in every place around Lackenasleva which is my own townland. there are many old sayings about the ghosts of Lackenasleva. One night a man was coming home from a dance; it was bout one o'clock and when he was passing Miss Kilcullen's Post Office he saw some black person standing outside the door. He went on a few yards, and after a while, he looked back and saw it following him. He walked fast and it kept after him until he came as far as "Cowel's Hill." And it disappeared all in a sudden. Every place there is an evil spirit. "The day is for the living and the night is for the dead."
II Many strange things appear in the night time. Some of these might be poor Souls(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Lena Mc Cann
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
