School: Knockerra (B.) Killimer
- Location:
- Knockerra, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Cuinneagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0629, Page 006
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“Long ago the old people used believe that there was ghosts there nowadays...”
Long ago the old people used believe that there was ghosts there. Nowadays the people would laugh at you if you said you saw a ghost. Every night the old people used to sit around the fire telling stories about ghosts and the young people who heard them telling the stories used get nervous and one of them would not go outside the door when it would be dark. One night James Connell was coming home from his "cuard" about eleven o' clock. It was a moonlight night. He was alone and had to pass by a supposed haunted place named Drumdigus Castle.
He saw an object at a distance and thought it was a ghost. It appeared very high. He got afraid and thought to turn back. So he picked up courage and faced it.
As he approached it he asked who was there but got no reply. When he passed by he found out it was a dummy man with a bundle of rods on his back.
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- Peter Paul Moloney
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