School: Listowel (B.) (roll number 1797)
- Location:
- Lios Tuathail, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: Brian Mac Mathúna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0405, Page 643
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- (continued from previous page)Fitzmaurices got up they were not talking about the event and as a matter of a fact did not remember it at all until a year afterwards as they were cutting turf in the bog. But the amazing thing was that they never thought of it until a year afterwards.
- One evening as Jer Driscoll of Dirha Listowel was going home through the fields he saw a woman all in white walking quickly after him. He walked on quickly but the woman kept the same distance behind him. He ran and jumped across a stream of water. The woman spoke and said, "If I caught you at this side of the stream you would not go home alive". Ghosts cannot cross water?
- Collector
- Joseph Cahill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Currach an tSuasáin, Co. Chiarraí
- Informant
- Tomas White
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Currach an tSuasáin, Co. Chiarraí
- One morning as John Carmody now of(continues on next page)
