School: Garrdha Dubhlios, Pálás Gréine (roll number 10991)
- Location:
- Garrydoolis, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Nuanáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0518, Page 012
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“When a certain man in the district of Pallasgreen was baptised the priest who baptised him told his sponsers that he'd never see a ghost or anything unearthly during his life.”
When a certain man in the district of Pallasgreen was baptised the priest who baptised him told his sponsers that he'd never see a ghost or anything unearthly during his life. The priests words held true until one night in the month of December. It happened that the man was coming from a public house in Kilteely and as he was coming home he had to go through a bog called the Bog of Ballinagreena. Now as everybody knows that it is very lonesome to cross fields at night but this man was not a bit afraid because he had heard what the priest said at his baptism. However as he was crossing the bog he looked behind him and to his great astonishment he saw a woman dressed in beautiful white robes. He noticed that she was not walking but floating in the air. The first thought that entered his mind was that this was a ghost. At this a plan came into(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Martin Comans
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloghaready, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mary O Donnell
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Occupation
- Labourer
- Address
- Garrydoolis, Co. Limerick