School: Ballycar, Cuinche

Location:
Ballycar, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Liam Mac Clúin
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    Some years ago a man went from Ballycar to Manchester to work

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    and respect a room where there is a corpse.''
    The new lodger jumped out of the bed. When the girls heard him getting up they ran back to the kitchen and said the corpse in number twenty three was rising. When the girls went away the man got up and went into number twenty-two. There was great excitement in the house until he was buried as no one slept for nights thinking of the ghost.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Mc Inerney
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballycar, Co. Clare