School: Cluainteach (roll number 10329)
- Location:
- Cloontagh, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Garaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0756, Page 072
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- There is said to be a ghost about Mr. Peyton's house. It is seen at midnight.
A workman of his heard the yard gate opening, a step across the yard, the kitchen door opening, and the chairs being pulled up to the fire.
At "Curley's" crossroads - a crossroads in Cloonteagh, there is also said to be a ghost. One time a man was going home from his "ceílihe" on a dark night. As he approached the crossroads he thought he heard the sound of a mowing machine.
It came nearer and nearer and after a while he had to run as the machine was cutting the heels off him.
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- S. Ó Pronntaigh
- Gender
- Male
