School: Johnswell, Kilkenny (roll number 3247)
- Location:
- Johnswell, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: D. Ó Héigceartaigh
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“Once upon a time a woman went to work in a house belonging to Ned Tobin. They put her in a room by herself to sleep and it was supposed to be haunted.”
(continued from previous page)heed in it. When she was leaving she told him to see the priest about it. The man was afraid to sleep another night after that so he went to the priest and asked him to come and bless the house. The priest came and blessed the house and he told the farmer to stay up that night and if they came to shake holy water all around the house and they would go. That night the farmer staye'd up and about twelve o'clock he felt the cups rattling all around him. He shook the holy water all around the house(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Lyons
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Jim Manning
- Age
- 40