School: Ballymahon (B.) (roll number 12690)
- Location:
- Ballymahon, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Eugene Conway
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0751, Page 292
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Ballymahon (B.)
- XML Page 292
- XML “A Ghost Story”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Up at Forgny there is an ash tree at Nanny Lees house. There was a man some time ago living at the east of the bush, and there was a woman who was odd and who used to go out at night and put a sheet on the windy side of the bush. Some years after, the woman died and she was heard at night calling out "Take this". One night James Lee, Joe Smyth, and Jim Coffey were passing the bush. Smyth was odd and they were all drunk. But Smyth said to the woman give it to me. The woman gave him the sheet and told him to give it to the owner that it was stolen and put round her in the coffin and he did as she told him.
- Collector
- Harry Flood
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballymahon, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Tom Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Cloonard, Co. Longford
