School: Ballivor (roll number 9380)
- Location:
- Ballivor, Co. Meath
- Teacher: T. Ua Conmhidhe
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- Ghost StoryBetween Rathmolyon and Summerhill at a place called Archer there lived an old Landlord called Winters.
He was a hard cruel man on the people.
When he died a dog used to appeared all around the place where he hunted with his hounds. He came a few nights every week, he used to howl like a lion. In the end when he was annoying the people too much and keeping them up all night. They had to get the priest and send him away.This story was told by John Cummins aged about 74 yrs Native of Parish. - You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.
- Informant
- Thomas Fagan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 84
- Address
- Clonycavan, Co. Meath