School: Garrowhill, Longford (roll number 10344)
- Location:
- An Gharbhchoill, Co. an Longfoirt
- Teacher: P. Mac Aonghusa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0756, Page 430
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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. - John Martagh of the townland of Creenlagh and parish of Clongesh was one night at 10 o'clock returning off his ceilighe in Tom Doyle's of the same townland when he was kept in a field by a curious light for almost two hours.
As the night was fairly bright, he said to himself that he would go by the short-cut across the fields.
He followed the path across the first field without incident, but on entering the second field he saw the strange light. He watch it, and at the same time he thought he was following on the right path; one he often travelled on before but he was never able to reach the other(continues on next page)
