Scoil: Tulach Sheasta, Clochair na Trócaire

Ar an leathanach seo

1. (gan teideal) (ar lean)

   “As a person travels a mile southward from the village of Ballina, in the direction of Birdhill....”

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   out, appeared like rough roots of trees, which sometimes appear above the ground, where the trees are large, and the surrounding soil shallow.
   When the mantle of darkness used to be drawn over Lough Derg, and when the people of the immediate neighbourhood were deep in slumber, this hideous creature would creep from its hiding place and visit the local (gray) graveyards, root up newly made graves, smash the coffins into match wood, devour the corpses and retreat homeward when fully satisfied.
   This went on for a considerable time before the people could diagnose the cause of this unnatural occurrence. They began to notice at last that these desecrations used only take place on the night of a funeral to a particular graveyard. They attributed these occurrences to something supernatural, as superstition was rife at the time, but a few men who were more materialistic than their neighbouring fellow-men decided to keep watch at once of the local graveyards, some night after a burial, and try to find out something practical for themselves

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Mary A. Flynn

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   Baineann

   Aois

   15

   Faisnéiseoir

   Mary Lynch

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   Baineann

   Aois

   c. 54

   Seoladh

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