School: Drumcrave
- Location:
- Drumcrauve, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Ss. Mac Giolla Choinnigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0975, Page 332
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- (continued from previous page)that night he was to go to her and make out he was going to kill. It was the boy's ghost, that was there and the girl did not want that. At nine o'clock that night the boy disappeared. The girl died shortly after that from shock. It is said that the boy appeared, to her every night.
- Black clothes are worn on the death of a relative. It is said that it is unlucky to wear black clothes, more than a year, as another death will occur the next year. An old saying is, "It would take seven tailors to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Carmel Maguire
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cavan, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mrs Elliott
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70
- Address
- College Street, Co. Cavan
