School: Achadh na Garron (Aughnagarron) (roll number 5603)
- Location:
- Aghnagarron, Co. Longford
- Teacher: -
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0764, Page 388
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Written by Eugene Gallagher, Dalystown, Granard, Co. Longford
Told by Peter Gallagher, Dalystown, Granard, Co. Longford. Age 70 years
- There was once a boy that didn't know what fear was and his stepfather wanted to knock fear into him so he sent him to a haunted rock where he left his coat. When the boy went to the rock there was a spirit sitting on his coat and the boy pulled the spirit of the coat and the spirit said " he was the bravest boy he had ever seen" and "that if he would carry him to a house that he would give him good payment.
When they went to the first house they were saying the Rosary and he said that if he would carry him to the next house he would double his payment so when he went to the next house the man and woman was(continues on next page) - Collector
- Anna Smyth
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Aghnagarron, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Mrs Pat Kiernan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 58
- Address
- Aghnagarron, Co. Longford
