School: Clonmacnoise
- Location:
- Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: P. Ó Maolmhuaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0811, Page 171
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- (continued from previous page)the Kilmartins will be the richest in the land then.
- Once upon a time about fifty years ago there lived a man named Charlton in Clonmacnois. One of his workmen lived in one part of the house, and every night he used to hear a horse and cart coming into the yard. Then the man would go out to unyoke the pony and he would see nothing at all.
Each night the horse and cart would come, and when the workman looked out he would see and hear the car going round and round the house three times, and he could see(continues on next page) - Collector
- Annie Norton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tullaghbeg, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Patrick Norton
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 62
- Address
- Tullaghbeg, Co. Offaly
