School: Naomh Peadar, Droichead Átha (roll number 11072)
- Location:
- Drogheda, Co. Louth
- Teacher: S. Mac Maoláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0680, Page 121
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- (continued from previous page)"Caley House". He went in & he was asked what was wrong with him. He said:- "God and the devil are in the cemetry dividing the souls."
- A man used to stay out late at night, and his sister thought that she would frighten him to make him come in earlier. She got a sheet and put it round her like a shroud. Then she went to a gate that was supposed to be haunted & crouched down at it. She thought she heard something and looked round. She saw an immense bale of wool moving towards her. She screamed & tried to run but she fell. Somebody heard here & came & brought her home. He did not see anything. She had seen the real ghost.
- There is a story told here about a black dog without a head that is seen on the Gurtha Hill at night time. Some people say it turns into a man & jumps over the hedge. Others say it disappears.
- Old people here say that a very bright light brighter that a motor car light wanders through the fields and always finishes up in an old ruined castle. One man say it & thought it was a man he knew & he stopped his car & said something to "him", but there was only a light no man. Another man was coming up(continues on next page)
