School: Borrisoleigh, Glenkeen (roll number 590)
- Location:
- Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Tomás de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0544, Page 284
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- (continued from previous page)beautiful yellow and she had a long white coat on her and it was down to the ground she used to be seen in the townland of Killamoyne Parish of Borrisoleigh and the Co Tipperary. It is said that they used to be a man seen every night in the hill he used to go out over the didtch and she was riding a horse and he was a big tall man and he had a white horse he used to be seen long ago.
Pupils Name: Mary Clohesy, Killamoyne, Borrisoleigh. Co Tipp.
Got From: Thomas Clohesy, Killamoyne, Borrisoleigh. Co Tipp.
50 yrs
- One night about twelve o clock they were two men coming home from the next house which was very far away they said to themselves that they would go across the fields and as it was a bit late. As they were going across the fields and heard a noise they looked and what did they see only a big man at first he thought he was a dead man but then he knew he was not.
Pupils Name: Mary Clohesy, Killamoyne, Borrisoleigh.
Got From: Thomas Clohesy, Killamoyne, Borrisoleigh. Co Tipp.
50 yrs - Collector
- Mary Clohesy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killamoyne, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Thomas Clohesy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Killamoyne, Co. Tipperary
