School: Druim an Easbuig
- Location:
- Drumanespick, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Á. Ní Dhálaigh
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- (continued from previous page)Mr Number One got the assistances of a neighbour to fix the room which had been occupied by Mrs Number Two, prior to her eviction. While heating the "bocans" and other irons in the fire to hang a door leading to the room, those irons were thrown from the fire on to the street in their very presence by some invisible power. With the result that the idea of putting on a door on the room had to be abandoned.
Fr Francis O'Reilly P.P. of Baileieboro visited the place to investigate the matter and was convinced of the truth when he saw the lighted candles on the table being extinguished while he was celebrating Mass. He there and then decided he would settle the spirit in a stone wall or fence on the "meaning" between two farms adjacent to the Mass Rock, with the advice that whatever(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Sean Tormey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumanespick, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- John Tormey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumanespick, Co. Cavan
