School: Kilbeg (roll number 11039)
- Location:
- Robertstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: -
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- (continued from previous page)have been made to catch it but all failed. It never appears only at twelve o'clock at night. These accounts were told to me by my father.
- This district is not inhabited by strange will animals except in a few places where black dogs, a black pig, and a turkey cock appeared as ghosts, and the last is supposed to be guarding a treasure.
At a place called Dan's Cross in Staholmog a black dog appears regularly at midnnight, does a round of the road and disappears into the ground in the form of a ball of lightning. This dog is the ghost of a man named Smyth who lost his life at this place from a fall off a load of hay. This dog which is as big as a calf(continues on next page) - Collector
- Jane O' Connell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drakerath, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Matt Flanagan
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drakerath, Co. Meath
