School: Lankill (roll number 16904)
- Location:
- Lankill, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cibhil
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- A head in the wallThere was a head seen often in John Reid's hill in Knappa Beg. Sometimes people saw it in the wall. One night about eleven o clock a man named Kearnes of Moyhastin was coming from visiting when the head rolled out of the wall and down the road before him. It kept on before him for a long time until it came to a gap at the bottom of the hill and then it suddenly disappeared. No one ever seen it of late although they pass that place often around twelve o clock.I heard this story from Mary McGing, Lanmore, Liscarney(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nora King
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lanmore, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mary Mc Ging
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lanmore, Co. Mayo
