School: Crecora, Tobar Pádraig (roll number 9668)
- Location:
- Crecora, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Ainnín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0526, Page 039
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- The gate entrance of the old churchyard at Killonahan has an eerie reputation. It so happened that a man was passing late one night driving an ass and a car returning from Patrick's Well where he visited the late Tom Hayes - a shoe-maker. On his way home, he called at a friend's house for a young cock, and it was about 11 p. m. when he passed this gate. He noticed some object like a four-footed animal in a hollow near the gate. At first he took it to be a sow belonging to Mr. Mullane who lived near-by.
He shuddered when the young cock in a bag crew, and looking back he thought he saw the object perched on the tail of the car. The man became desperate, the reins fell from his hands(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seán Ó Finn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lemonfield, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Seán Ó Finn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lemonfield, Co. Limerick
