School: Virginia (C )
- Location:
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mrs Farelly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1001, Page 175
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- There was a house situated in the townland of Correagh and no one living in it for forty years, on account of a Ghost that was in it.
This man and his wife went to live in it. The Ghost used to walk around the house and talk to the people. Some time after the woman of the house fell sick, and her sister went to see her and the Ghost said to her "I will give you a fright to night.
On her way home, she had to pass a graveyard. Along the road outside the graveyard, she saw a parcel about the size of a loaf, with a white paper on it.
She lifted it up and the Ghost said. Leave me alone of I will choke you. He followed her home crying.
She was in bed for two days after the fright he gave her.
After two weeks illness the other woman died. When the funeral was over, the people of the house(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Susan Farrelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lisgrea, Co. Cavan
