School: An Clochar, Roscrea
- Location:
- Roscrea, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An Mháthair M. Ní Thuathaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0549, Page 041
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- (continued from previous page)could not find it. A week after the death of the lady a certain man went to the place. He had just dug a few feet down in the ground when the ghost of the lady appeared. The man fell unconcious, and when he recovered the sand had been put back. So he went home and never went there again.
Since that day the ghost of the lady appeared around the place and a certain person went to the priest and told him the story. So the following night the priest went to the place and tried to persuade the ghost to leave the place. She went, but she left the prints of her fingers on his face, and she told him that no one would find the treasure unless they came with a black cock without one white feather(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maura Moore
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glebe View, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr Tom Maher
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Grange, Co. Tipperary
