School: Ráth Araidh (roll number 9362)
- Location:
- Rahara, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: M. Ní Bheirn
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1. There was a man who had pigs. They were in a pig house divided by a partition of the dwelling house. Every night a ghost used to throw the pigs out into the kitchen. The man would put them out in the morning again. This went on for a long time. One night the ghost got his shoes wet & came into the kitchen to dry them. The man of the house stole into the corner unknown to him & threw coals on his feet. The ghost ran out the door & the man kept the shoes which lasted him for seven years.
(Got by Jim Mulligan Funshinagh from his grandfather Jim Kelly Coolagarry)
- 2. There were people at a dance in a house one night, at twelve o'clock a girl sneezed and she was taken up into the roof she sneezed a second and a third, the third time an old woman said "God bless us and the girl came down.
(Mrs.Butler Lysterfield, Curraghboy) - Informant
- Mrs Butler
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lysterfield, Co. Roscommon
