School: Cúl Umha (Buachaillí)
- Location:
- Cooloo, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Antoine P. Ó Murchú
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- (continued from previous page)wearing a scapular." Mr. Dolan said he was. The man then asked if he had a wife and children and he said he had. The man then told him to come again the next night and if he was wearing the scapular he would kill both his wife and children.
The man then walked away.
Mr. Dolan was very much afraid and he went next day to the priest and told him what had happened. The priest told him to go to the same place that night and if he saw the man to say certain Latin words and if the man was a spirit he would vanish. At the priest's suggestion he went to the place that evening and he saw the man there. He said the words and the man vanished.
- Collector
- Marcus Ó Muirghís
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Mullaghmore North, Co. Galway
