School: Killahan
- Location:
- Cill Laithín, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: Bean Uí Ríoghbhardáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0413, Page 315
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- (continued from previous page)"paying rounds", around the Castle grounds.
- A man was passing by the grave-yard in Killahan late one night in November and he saw the whole church-yard full of women dressed in white. He ran home in a terrible saothar, and arriving breathless he told his people what he had seen. He went to bed, where his body was found cold in death next morning.
- Informant
- Mrs O' Connor
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Baile Mhic an Chaim Thoir, Co. Chiarraí
- Páirc na gCaorac, An Goirtín, Aird na Scoile, Park na Stark, Quarry Field, Pound Field, Snipe Field, Bullock Field, Church Field, Rock Field, Graffeen Field.
- What is the first thing a boy does who tumbles into a brook? Get wet.(continues on next page)
