School: Clochar na Trócaire, Carn Domhnaigh (roll number 16821)
- Location:
- Baile Bhloscaidh, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Beirín Ní Bhaoighill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1114, Page 245
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- (continued from previous page)legged chair started to dance. The musician still played and kept his head going from side to side. The man thought this great sport so he called to the musician to play "Blind Rafferty" - that finished it. The tables, tongs, shovel and everything else went into their places. The musician vanished up the chimney leaving the bellows behind him in his hurry. Then the man went in and slept contentedly till morning.
- There lived a man, his wife and children in a cottage situated above the brossroads, Gleneely. This cottage was "haunted". Every night knocking and rattling were heard and it seemed as if the house was going(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs Charles Farren
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carn Domhnach, Co. Dhún na nGall
