School: Forgney, Ballymahon (roll number 860)
- Location:
- Forgney, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Mrs B. Higgins
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0750, Page 364
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- (continued from previous page)"And where were you the third time?"
"I was just here".
The priest then settled her spirit under a bush not far from the roadside. Both he and the young man were dead within six months from that night because no one lives long who questions a spirit.
- The old house in which my grandparents lived was built between two forts on "the fairies passway". The people who lived in this house before my grandparents always left a jug of water and loaf of bread on the table at night before they retired to bed.
A girl of this family was once getting water from a near by well when something like a sheet floated down to her from the fort. She threw a coin into it, and it is said that it then filled up with money. She rolled it up, and went away and was never seen afterwards. - Collector
- Irene Finnegan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Forgney, Co. Longford
