School: Ballycallan (roll number 7050)
- Location:
- Ballycallan, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: P. J. O'Hara
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - Once there was a grave opened in Ballycallan graveyard. The night it was opened, a man got down into it. There was a man passing through the graveyard and he did not know that the man was in the grave. The man in the grave said, "I am very cold down here," and the other man said, "It is no wonder for you to be cold when they forgot to cover you."
- There was once a man living in Mountgale in the year 1916. He hanged himself in his own house to the post of a door and the stain of his blood remained on the door and it could not be taken off. If there were new posts put up it(continues on next page)
