School: Grianán Ailigh (roll number 2049)

Location:
Grianán Ailigh, Co. Dhún na nGall
Teacher:
Niall S. Mac Aoidh
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    Round about Burt there are many stories told about haunted houses as follows.

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    spoke another voice mocked them. There were no body else in the castle, at last they recognised that it was an evil spirit. So they ran home as fast as they could. A number of years ago there lived at bridge-end a man who's name was Johnson. He had a mill. One night he was late in going to his bed. At about twelve o clock the mill began to work. Johnson hearing it and thinking that it was a beast had got into where the mill was and was rubbing itself against the shaft which drives the mill had started it, so going out, the mill stopped at once, He could see nothing, The Following
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English
    Collector
    William Doherty
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Both Chuilinn Íochtarach, Co. Dhún na nGall