School: Naomh Muire, Droichead Átha (roll number 8052)
- Location:
- Drogheda, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Sr. M. Bernard Mc Cabe
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- It is said that a house on Pitcher Hill is still haunted. It is said that once every year a black man is seen to appear on the stairs of the house.
On another occasion a baby was found on the stairs. How she left the room no-one knows, or how she was left there. It is believed to be the work of the Ghost. She was also found at the kitchen door half choked.
- Collector
- Kathleen O' Hare
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Beamore Road, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Mary Owens
- Gender
- Female
- The leprecaun was supposed to be a little dwarf about the size of a man's fist. Every moonlight night he was to be seen sitting under a tree mending shoes.
One night a girl was going for a pitcher of water. It was a moonlight night and as she was going along she saw a leprecaun sitting under a tree mending shoes and a(continues on next page)
