School: Sceichín an Rince, Cloichín an Mhargaidh
- Location:
- Skeheenaranky, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Domhnall Ua Cathasaigh
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- One night a man was going home from a neighbour's house. And he made a short cut through fields. As he was going through the fields heard a whistle and he answered it back because he thought it was his brother. When he came near his own house he saw a big man and he crushed him against the ditch. The other man roared and his father heard him. But when he reached the spot where he lay he was dead.
- Informant
- Pat Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Skeheenaranky, Co. Tipperary
- Where the Sheep river flows past Barrett's Wood a woman used to be heard beetling clothes very often. She was called the "Beetling Woman". There was a round stone on the bank of the river opposite the corner of the wood and a sheet used to be seen wrapped round the stone, also a candle lighted there in the night. One night a man crossed over the stone round which the sheet was wrapped. He went astray going home that night and could not get home until morning.
