School: Bigwood, Mullinavat (roll number 2961)
- Location:
- Rathnasmolagh, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Briain
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0845, Page 415
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: Bigwood, Mullinavat
- XML Page 415
- XML “Funny Stories”
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
- A certain labouring man was sent out for cows one Summer's morning. The cows were grazing in a field beside an old Churchyard.
In the Churchyard were old vaults. Under one of them a tinker made his bed for the night. The cows were grazing near where the thinker was sleeping. When the tinker heard the man driving the cows, he jumped and from the vault where he was sleeping and asked the man why he was making so much noise so early in the morning.
This was a nervious man and he thought the tinker was a Ghost. The man got such a fright that he left the cows in the field and ran home. He never came near the Churchyard again. He told his master what he saw.
- Collector
- Josie Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ardbeg, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- John Doherty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Davidstown, Co. Kilkenny
