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School: An Mhágh Bheag, Droichead Banndan (roll number 11025)

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Mawbeg East, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Nóra, Bean Uí Uallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0315, Page 032

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  1. A Ghost Story

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    Dan Keohane told me that 50 years ago he was going to Clonakilty for sand.
    In those days they had no clocks so he went to bed early so that he would get up early. It was a moonlight night and he thought it was daybreak but it was only midnight, He hurried and got ready for the journey and as he was about to start he forgot the whip so he went for it where he left it.
    There was a woman sitting on it; he pulled it from under her and jumped into the butt but the ghost made after him.
    Suddenly he thought steel would keep away ghosts so he took out his penknife and kept her away with it.
    The ghost kept at him until a cock crew in a house as he passed by and then it disappeared.
    Teddy McCarthy
    Murragh
    Enniskeane.
    He got this story from Dan Keohane
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Teddy Mac Carthy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Murragh, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Dan Keohane
    Gender
    Male