School: Ballycar, Cuinche
- Location:
- Ballycar, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Liam Mac Clúin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0599, Page 252
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“Long ago there was a cruel steward in Ralahine”
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Any one that took water from the pump would be imprisoned.
One day a crowd of boys tried to kill the the steward and they succeeded in killing him.While the boys were killing the steward there was a man looking at them
and he never told anyone what happened that day.In a few days time the man that saw the crowd of boys killing the steward was passing the place where the murder took place.He heard a very joyful laugh and he thought it was a laugh of some evil spirit on account of he not telling anyone about it.
Another day the man was
sitting on a wall near the place he was frightened before and he thought he heard the same laugh .Then he got very suspicious and he went searching that he sat down on a stone that was on a fort wall and he fell out on his face.Then the man was haunted from that day forward and he never had any peace from that day until he died.
- Collector
- Tom Hartigan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathlaheen South, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Patt Hartigan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathlaheen South, Co. Clare