School: Banagher (B.)
- Location:
- Banagher, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Maoilchéire
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0816, Page 485
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: Banagher (B.)
- XML Page 485
- XML “Ghosts”
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
- GhostsMy father being a man who travelled at all hours of the night as a young man fifty years ago I asked him if he ever saw anything in the nature of a ghost or spirit. He replied "No", I never saw anything myself but here is an experience I had."One night I was coming down the village street (of Cloghan). It was about 12.30 or 1 o'clock. I saw a light coming along the road from the direction of Banagher. It appeared to be coming very fast and before I reached the door of my house it had approached me. It was a cyclist (Martin McIntyre of Galross) a man of about 40 years now. He was then 25 or so. He fell off his bicycle when he saw me and I noticed that he was in a very excited condition. He was on the verge of fainting so I told him to pull himself(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Tim Mulhare
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 74
- Occupation
- Smith
- Address
- Cloghan, Co. Offaly
