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School: Baltrasna (roll number 4086)

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Baltrasna, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Shuibhne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0716, Page 300

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    “The following story happened about seventy years ago in Loughcrew Co Meath...”

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    The following story happened about seventy years ago in Loughcrew Co. Meath to a woman who was living in a a big house in Loughcrew, and she had a lot of rings on her fingers and the yard-man wanted to get them, so when she died she was put in to a vault and that night he went to the vault and went in. He tried to take the rings off but he could not, so he cut off her fingers and while he was still cutting them off she wakened up for she was only in a trance. She got up and walked to her own house and knocked at the door and her husband opened it and when he saw her he fainted, for he thought it was her ghost.
    Written by Eithne Kearney Baltrasna Oldcastle
    told to me by Harry McCabe Baltrasna Oldcastle
    aged 33 years
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eithne Kearney
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Baltrasna, Co. Meath
    Informant
    Harry Mc Cabe
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    83
    Address
    Baltrasna, Co. Meath