School: Clochar na Trócaire, An Clochán
- Location:
- An Clochán, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Peadar
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0004, Page 485
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- (continued from previous page)She used always go back to the school in the evenings after her dinner fixing books and writing a lot of other things.
One Summer's evening when she was coming back to the house after school she saw a funeral going towards the children's graveyard. There was a graveyard there where they used to bury young babies, When she came back to the house she told the woman of the house that she saw a funeral going towards the children's graveyard.
It was a very large funeral she said. She then asked the woman was there any baby dead in the village. The woman said she knew of no-one being dead, but maybe there was a baby dead in the neighbouring village. So the teacher and the woman got ready and went up to the graveyard and when they reached the grave there was not one in the graveyard or a sign of a grave being dug. Not long after that the teacher got very sick and her father came for her to bring her home. After that she died. It is said that she saw her own funeral.
- Collector
- Mary Gibbons
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Clochán, Co. na Gaillimhe
