School: Rathnure (C.) (roll number 12480)
- Location:
- Rathnure Upper, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Cáit Ní Bholguidhir
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0900, Page 363
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: Rathnure (C.)
- XML Page 363
- 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
- (continued from previous page)not survive long.His spirit was seen also by Walter Clare, Moneynamough, who was his great friend. Walter was the Relieving Officer, in this district.
One night as he was coming home from New Ross, with a donkey and car, he saw the spirit of James Furlong. He was dressed as before, but wore no hat. He walked along by the side of the car, until Walter reached his own home. He threw the reins over the donkey's head.
Said nothing, up went upstairs, and gave unearthly screams. He jumped into the bed behind his brother and said "James Furlong is at the door. He also gave an offering for a Mass for his soul, and bought a hat and gave it to a poor man, to pray foor him.There were others also who saw(continues on next page)
- Informant
- John Redmond
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Ballybaun, Co. Wexford
