School: Dangan (C.) (roll number 7499)
- Location:
- Dangan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Maighréad Ní Fhógartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0692, Page 186
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- (continued from previous page)was going to open the room that he could not see anybody. He opened the door of the room and in it was a coffin an a big, black hat. He shut the room again and that night they saw a ghost and the hat that they saw in the room in his hand. The priest settled the ghost in a tree and part of the penance was to go to Mass every morning.
- There was a priest buried outside the old chapel in Dangan. Very soon after, the new chapel was built, and the old chapel was a dance hall. One night there was a dance in the old chapel and the people were dancing on top of the priest that was buried outside the chapel door. The next time there was a dance the people saw a ghost where the priest was buried and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rosaleen Hughes
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Margaret Duffy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Summerhill, Co. Meath
