School: Clochar Loreto, An Uaimh (roll number 16100)
- Location:
- An Uaimh, Co. na Mí
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Colm
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0699, Page 124
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- The following took place about one hundred years ago.
A man, named Paddy Gaughran was playing cards in a house in Cortown, and when he was coming home this night at twelve o'clock he came an unusual route. Instead of taking the main road he came a short cut across the fields. Just in front of a Protestant house he saw what he thought to be a horse. On approaching the animal (as he thought) he found that it was a ghost of a man who was six months dead. He was clad in his usual working clothes and was smoking his white clay pipe. He was a Catholic but was married to a Protestant girl who was still alive and living in this(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Paddy Gaughran
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 62
- Address
- Bóthar Bhaile Átha Cliath, Co. na Mí
- Informant
- Kathleen Lynch
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Cnoc Comair, Co. na Mí
