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School: Aughnadary (roll number 5650)

Location:
Cloonerra, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
S. de Brún
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0257, Page 404

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    “The old road from Strokestown to Roscommon, started from Newtown on the Longford road about three hundred yards from the town...”

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    from Midgefield and going up the Carroward hill, he met a strange man but the man never spoke to him until they came to the house of the wake, then the strange man said to the man from Midgefield the first man you meet when you go in to the house of the wake, bring him out here to me." The Midhgfield man did so and the Ghost brought him off and killed him.
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Máire Ní Cathmhaoil
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Carroward, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    Michael Neary
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    98
    Occupation
    Feirmeoir
    Address
    Carroward, Co. Roscommon