School: Stranorlar
- Location:
- Stranorlar, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Giolla Chomhghaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1096, Page 21
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- In the townland of Stranorlar Country Donegal there are the ruins of an old castle. It is known as Drumboe Castle. There are a lot of queer stories told about it by people who worked in it when it was inhabited. The following was told by a man named John McGinty who served as coachman for Sir Edmond Hayes who was a former owner of it for many years.
One winters night Sir Edmond Hayes was away visiting and all the ladies were away at the ball. There was no one in the house but John McGinty, the servants having all gone to their own home's.
John McGinty was by no means a nervous man. But about midnight a queer feeling came over him as he lay awake in bed and a terrible eeriness seemed to come over the castle.
Straining his ears he heard the sound of light footsteps coming from the garret in the far corner of the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Rowan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Stranorlar, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mr John Mc Ginty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumboe Lower, Co. Donegal
