School: Ballycar, Cuinche
- Location:
- Ballycar, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Liam Mac Clúin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0599, Page 256
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“Patt Moylan of Madara Quin Co Clare was going to Limerick with a creel of pigs to sell”
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Patt Moylan of Madara Quin Co Clare was going to Limerick with a creel of pigs to sell.It is seventeen miles from Quin to Limerick .Patt started at twelve oclock at night in order to be in time ,as he had to walk the horse the whole way to Limerick.Going through Quin ,all had retired to rest but he met a man dressed in his army officer's uniform at Quin Cross.Patt was surprised because there were no soldiers nearer than Limerick but Patt remembered the story that an officer shot himself in a house at the Cross.,the time the soldiers were in Quin very many years previously .Patt continued his journey and passing the field adjacent to the abbey he saw a host of people .Amongst them he recognised many people long since dead.Going through Rathlully he encountered another ghost.This time he saw a white woman going with the wind and disappearing in the direction(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Tom Crowe
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 70
- Address
- Quin, Co. Clare