School: An Sciobairín
- Location:
- An Sciobairín, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Cuileanáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0297, Page 130
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- (continued from previous page)into the workhouse, where all the poor and dispossessed were detained. At that time people died in hundreds from starvation. Anyhow it came to pass that Tom Gearun "died", he was taken to the Abbey graveyard.
At that time the dead people used not be coffined. When Tom was buried, one man struck the sods that covered the grave, at that moment he, heard some-body say "Let me out, Let me out, Let me out".
They opened the grave and Tom jumped out, afterwards it was found that Tom was only in a trance.
- Collector
- Cornelius Daly
- Gender
- Male
