School: Listowel (B.) (roll number 1797)
- Location:
- Lios Tuathail, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: Brian Mac Mathúna
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- (continued from previous page)Dirha Listowel was going fishing he saw a dead sailor in the strand of Beal. As the sailor was unknown they buried him under a bush near by. The bush is still known as the Sailor's Bush. They gave his watch and clothes to another man. When this man went out the next night he met the sailor and he said he would give back his watch and clothes. The man ran home and went into bed. When the man was inside in bed the sailor came into the room and jumped inside him in bed. The man jumped up and the sailor ran out through the door. The man put the watch and clothes outside the door and when he got up in the morning they were gone. The next night as the man's wife was going to the well for water she saw the sailor standing down the path and she ran in home and told her husband. Her husband went out with a pike and the sailor ran to the bush where he was buried and disappeared and he was never seen again.
- Collector
- Joseph Cahill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Currach an tSuasáin, Co. Chiarraí
- Informant
- Thomas White
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Currach an tSuasáin, Co. Chiarraí
