School: Gartbratten
- Location:
- Gartbrattan, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: Miss W. Price
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- (continued from previous page)felt, as if the hair stood on his head.
The boys went home a little frightened. People say that two men were fighting long ago, and they fell down the stairs, and were killed. It is now a haunted house.
- This story was told to me by Mark Blair Kilmore Co. Cavan :-
A little boy was sitting behind an old bald-headed man in Church, who was scratching the fringe of hair on one side of his bald pate. This he kept up so long that at last the little boy became interested and leaning over said - "Say, mister, you'll never catch him there. Run him out into the open!" - Collector
- Edith Jackson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumconnick, Co. an Chabháin
- Informant
- Mr Mark Blair
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilmore Upper, Co. an Chabháin
- In our parish there are three cemeteries. The old cemetery the new cemetery and the Bishop's graveyard. The Old Cemetery is divided from the Bishop's cemetery by a wall and the New is along the side of the main road to Cavan. There still stands an old building in(continues on next page)
