School: Dunboyne (C.) (roll number 15917)
- Location:
- Dunboyne, Co. Meath
- Teachers: Seosaimhín Ní Chonmidhe Uná Frinse
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0689, Page 057
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- Ghost Stories1. A man walks from Dowdall's (Ellisctown) across the road and down into the ditch on the other side every two minutes between twelve o'clock and three o'clock.
2. A horse gallops up the road from Sterling Hill to Wallaces with a dead man on his back in the early morning.
3. My father and Uncle were cutting sticks one night and saw hunt (phantom) going through the fields near Rooske.
4. A white sheet appears on one of the trees at Brady's farm.
5. A horse will not pass Garnett's (Clonee) gate between two and four o'clock in the mornings. The ghost of old Mr Garnett is supposed to be the cause.
6. A dog follows people after 12 o'clock at Kelly's (the Half Way House)Told to Gretta Cunningham by Mrs Hanley, Sterling Clonee, Dunboyne
(aged 62 years)
- Collector
- Gretta Cunningham
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Hanley
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 62
- Address
- Stirling House, Co. Meath
