School: Convent of Mercy, An Pasáiste, Corcaigh
- Location:
- Passage West, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Na Siúracha
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- (continued from previous page)husband would return.
She lived but a few years, in great anxiety, and after her death the house was unoccupied for fifty years.
Then Mr. Clarke of Passage bought it. He investigated the ghost stories told about it, and, when looking through the house, he found the tables still laid but the dust of fifty years lay on them.
- An old legend is told about Bloomfield House. It is said that many years ago a man, whose name was Daniel Pike, from Bessboro, was noted for cheating at cards. One day as Pike was at a(continues on next page)
