School: Keelagh
- Location:
- Keelagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Ellen Reilly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1025, Page 045
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- One night a man was coming home from his ceilidhe at eleven o'clock. It was dark and he could not see his way.
When he was walking through the fields he suddenly found a great noise behind him. He looked round a saw a bright light behind him. The man was frightened and ran on as fast as he could. At last he was almost out of breath and had to stop running.
When he began to walk again the light came and stopped by his side. Every time the man stopped the light stopped too. When he reached his own street the light disappeared. When he went into his own house he fainted on the floor.
The next night he brought his brother with him and when they were coming home they did not see anything.
The following night he went by himself and he saw the light again. The next morning he went and told the priest of what he had seen. The priest said a Mass for him and he never saw the light again
- Collector
- Hugh Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Patrick Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mullalougher, Co. Cavan
