School: Ballyadams (roll number 894)

Location:
Ballyadams, Co. Laois
Teacher:
P. Ó Bruadair
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    figure in white was there before him. He got suspicious of the ghost and began to think it was some trickster. He stopped. "I see there are two of you here tonight" he said to the figure in white. The man dressed in white thought when he heard that that there was real spirit beside him that he could not see but which Paddy Byrne could see. Taking to his heels he ran for his life.
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