School: Lorganboy (roll number 14793)
- Location:
- An Lorgain Bhuí, Co. Liatroma
- Teacher: Máire Nic Fhearghusa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0193, Page 093
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- The Ghost
Sally and James Dorien were man and wife and they lived in a small cottage.Sally had a lot of fine bowls of which she was very proud. One morning James had a great story to tell his comrades of how the devil had come in the night and how he had got the gun and fired a shot and how the devil had taken himself off to the place where he had come from in a great fright. But that was not the true story; the true one was that Sally and James had been wakened by a noise outside and on looking out they saw a ghost but it was no ghost it was only a man with a sheet round(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Heather W. Bracken
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Lorgain Bhuí, Co. Liatroma
- Informant
- Rev. F.J. Patterson
- Gender
- Male
