School: Glynn (C.) (roll number 4602)
- Location:
- Glynn, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Maighréad Ní Giolla Eoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0883, Page 302
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- (continued from previous page)a person went there at midnight and accepted the challenge of the ghostly soldier he would meet with a terrible death.
- On the left bank of the river Slaney there stands an old Castle which was built by the Danes in the time of the persecution by Cromwell.
It stands in a field owned by people named Laffans.
In one of the rooms it is told that there is a crock of gold buried and that a soldier appears there with two swords every night at twelve oclock. If you were there he would give you one of them, ask you to fight with him and if you were lucky enough to kill him the gold was yours.
One night a strange incident(continues on next page) - Collector
- Margaret Wheeler
- Gender
- Female
