School: Knockaderry (C.) (roll number 2419)
- Location:
- Cnoc an Doire, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: Hanna Mannix
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0460, Page 268
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- It happened in Molahiffe about thirty years ago. A servant girl and the woman of the house spilt a tub of milk of one night and they thought they would be killed. They put dust on it, and when they got up in the morning, it was in big lumps of blood.
Peg Gleeson
Ballybrack age 13 years
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- Collector
- Peg Gleeson
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- An Baile Breac, Co. Chiarraí
- Near our house there is a field by the name of "Kileens" and it full of small pebbles.
"It is said, if anyone take any of these pebbles he is to be haunted that night. A person living near the field was passing by it one day and he took up a few pebbles, and took them home with him. That night, as he was shaving himself near the window with the twilight, he saw a person(continues on next page)
