School: Rathnure (C.) (roll number 12480)

Location:
Rathnure Upper, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
Cáit Ní Bholguidhir
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0900, Page 349

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0900, Page 349

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Rathnure (C.)
  2. XML Page 349
  3. XML “Ghost Stories”

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

  1. (continued from previous page)
    whip in his hand. Just as they passed through the gateway, all vanished. He closed the gate, and with the fright, the use left his legs, and he had to sit down for a while until he recovered. Ever afterwards he made sure to come home early in the evenings, and was never caught out after nightfall.
    Another night Pat Conroy was going home to Monksgrange from Killanne, he had to pass by a place where a man was killed years before. Pat was working at Mr Orpen's, Monksgrange, and he was playing cards in a house, with other men and boys in Killanne. It was after midnight when he was passing by this place. There was a white-thorn tree growing just at this spot.
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Language
    English