School: Teampoll Doire, Dúrlas Éile (roll number 9060)
- Location:
- Teampall Doire, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Flannagáin
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - Once upon a time two men made a bet that they would walk round a church-yard at midnight on All Souls Night when the ghosts of the dead are supposed to be going about.Then the night came on which they were to do it. So they started from the gate of the churchyard, each was to walk all around the graveyard and meet at the gate again.
One of the men was only gone half ways when he fell over a big white man as he thought.He was very frightened and he got up and began to run.Then he looked back to see if the fearful(continues on next page)
