School: Naomh Muire, Droichead Átha (roll number 8052)
- Location:
- Drogheda, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Sr. M. Bernard Mc Cabe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0680, Page 305
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- Once there lived a man who used to stay out playing cards till twelve oclock every night in a big hall attached to a public house. All the other men whom he played with knew he was a coward. He used to tell them that he saw a ghost every night on his way home but they did not believe him. So one man decided to play a trick on him. He dressed up in a sheet.
That night as the coward was going home he said, "Ah there are two of you there tonight. The other man looked round and saw a ghost. He fell to the ground and died with fright.
- Collector
- Mary Brien
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Duleek Street, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Mary Breen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drogheda, Co. Louth
