School: Corra-bheagáin (roll number 12206)
- Location:
- Corraveggaun West, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádhraic Mac Congamhna
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“Long ago in Ireland the young boys always gathered nuts for November's night.”
(continued from previous page)souls. He frightened and ran off towards his master's home.
When he reached home he told his master what he had heard. His master told him if he carried him on his back to the graveyard that he would find out who was there. This Protestant man was crippled with rheumatism and that was the reason he asked the boy to carry him. The boy gladly agreed.
When they reached the graveyard they still heard the voice and the boy got frightened and threw his master off his back and ran away. The poor man roared and began jumping and in the end he began to run and after that he never complained of rheumatism
- Collector
- Peggy Flynn
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gortaskibbole, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Barbara Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gortaskibbole, Co. Mayo