School: Clonfad (roll number 11948)
- Location:
- Cloonfad, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Cionnaodha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0273, Page 342
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- One time there was a ghost in the village of Cloneash. There was also a boy in the same village whom the ghost used to throw up in the air every day. This horrified the boy very much so his parents told the parish priest.
The parish priest put the ghost into a bottle and buried it in Creggane hill. When the boy grew to manhood the bottle was broken and the ghost got out and drowned him while he was crossing the Suck in a boat.Donald Burke.It not right to set eggs on a Sunday.
It is not right to sweep a chimney on a Monday.
It is not right to count the teeth in a comb.
It is not right to spend money on hansel Monday or you would be spending it every day all the year.
- Collector
- Donald Burke
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- William Kenny
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clooneish, Co. Roscommon
