School: Clonmacnoise
- Location:
- Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: P. Ó Maolmhuaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0811, Page 234
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- (continued from previous page)from Doon to Ballyhearth when he met an old woman with a shawl on her head. Whatever side of the road he went to she went to the same side, and try as he would the woman was always before him and she would not let him pass. At last the man said “Where are you going”, and she answered “Neither to thee nor to thine.” As she said these word she vanished.
- Another night about eight o’clock two girls were going from Doon to Ballinahown. As they came near the Castle at Mooney’s gate one of the girls saw a white thing like a sheep on the little road going into the castle. She was not frightened at this(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brendan Molloy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Thomas Shea
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Magheramore, Co. Offaly
