School: Lloyd (Scoil Laoide) (roll number 15987)
- Location:
- Toberdan, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Eibhlín, Bean Uí Choibián
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0266, Page 176
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Lloyd (Scoil Laoide)
- XML Page 176
- XML “Fireside Tales”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)he never knew where he was until the break of days.
(sh) Sure an I wouldn't wonder at that atall" said Tom Kilroy, there's 'nayther' luck nor grace attached to any 'wan' that apsses my Mac's old fort after night-fall its haunted if ever anyplace was haunted before, an' I'm not the first 'wan' to make that remark. Sure, an' don't I remember well here about ten years ago when I was comin' home myself after I spendin the night at 'me' uncle's in Carrigan. I was walking along fair an' 'aisy' like, an thinkin' 'av' nothing in particular, when all 'av' a sudden, did'nt I begin to feel myself gettin' a class 'av' quare an' I just passin by the 'ould' fort. I stopped to look around me, but as sure as I am 'spakin' to ye now, not a (sigth) sight of a field nor a thing could I see, except big mountains of sand on every side. Well I was in a fix to be sure. When I used(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bea Boyd
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Toberdan, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Tom Kilroy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Toberdan, Co. Roscommon
