School: Kilbeg (roll number 11039)

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   This story was told to me by a woman called Bridget Carpenter of Spandaw. Long ago there lived an old woman in Spandaw who would be always telling ghost stories, and she used to say that she would never be afraid of ghosts. This woman used to get milk from a neighbour who lived about a half a mile across the fields. One winters night she was crossing for the milk and she was going near to the house she heard a wild scream going round the field and she thought it was old Dyas who had been dead for years before that riding a horse round the field. So when she went into the house she fainted then she was afraid to go back home again. In this hose there lived a man and people used to call him ‘the Gripper’ for a nick name and he would never be afraid of ghosts and he had to leave the woman at home. When they came to Staholmog Chapel she thought she saw Dyas standing up against the

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Michael Carpenter

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Staholmog, Co. Meath