School: Straboe (roll number 12934)
- Location:
- Straboe, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Bríd Nic Cormaic
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0835, Page 143
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- There was a ghost in a house. It stayed under the floor. It made noise of a man making boots, in the night it would stop hammering, and then would begin eating cabbage, and he would begin to work again. The people that were living in the house brought a priest and they ghost was put away. The people that owned the house lived in Fermanagh, and they were not afraid to live there anymore.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Theresa Daly
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Daly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- c. 60
- Address
- Capard, Co. Laois
