School: Roxboro
- Location:
- Roxborough, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Ruairc
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- Their lived in Barnhill long ago two men whose names were John Sgally and Thomas Sgally. One of them died and then the other man was living alone. The lone man was standing at the door one day and he seen his dead brother coming up the road in a carrige with a burning foot. The ghost went over to the man at the door and told him to meet him in a certain field that night. The man said he would. The ghost also told him he was the cause of having him damned(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Delamere
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Joseph Delamere
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Roxborough, Co. Roscommon
