School: Hackettstown (St Joseph's)
- Location:
- Baile Haicéid, Co. Cheatharlach
- Teacher: M. Ní Raghallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0909, Page 340
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- (continued from previous page)good day. Turning towards him the person gave one horrified ghastly stare dropped the implements and fled. Need less to say this caused him some amazement and he followed the seemingly scared man; when lo and behold he observed all round the wee house in which he had passed the night many and many a cross and tombstone. It was a cemetery, and the place he slept the mortuary where dead men were often laid prior to interment. The person who dropped the shovels so quickly and ran was a grave digger who taught the wearyed lodger was a dead man come to life.
- Collector
- Mena Byrne
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Thomas Kenny
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Cill Mhic Artáin, Co. Cheatharlach
