School: Bun Machan
- Teacher: Íde, Bean Uí Chobhthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0648, Page 353
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- One night a man went to a wood nearby to cut down a tree and steal it home as he could not get an opportunity in the daytime. When he had it cut down he took it upon his shoulder to carry it home.
As he was walking along he saw something approaching him. He could not distinguish what it really was until it was only a few yards away. A funeral was approaching him steadily. At first he became astonished and began to walk quickly. But to his amazement it stopped as it was passing him. One of the men in the funeral came up to the man and asked him where he got the tree. The man told him he stole it, so in order to punish him for his mean trick, the ghostly man cast a spell on him so he became as the other men in the funeral and nobody ever saw him again from that day onwards.
- Collector
- Annie O' Connell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballygarran, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- William O' Connell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Ballygarran, Co. Waterford
- The ruin of an old castle is to be seen near Dungarvan. It was said to be haunted and that there was gold buried there and it was protected by the ghost of a man.
A certain man of the district who was very brave did(continues on next page)
