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School: Drumlease (roll number 15382)

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Drumlease, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Tomás Diolún
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0201, Page 041

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  1. The Friarstown Ghost

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    The Friarstown Ghost.
    The Division amongst tenants of the lands known as Friarstown just across the river from Dromahair and the subsequent demolition of the old residence thereon revived us night forgotten stories of bye-gone owners.
    Many of those old stories are gruesome. The best remembered and most-oft'-told tales concerns the ghost that walks nightly in the great drawing room of the old residence. The existence of this nocturnal visitor has never doubted. Down the different generations children and grown-up people have listened wide-eyed as the narrators have related how this troubled spirit was heard
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Rita Fowley
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Bawn, Co. Leitrim
    Informant
    Mrs Fowley
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Bawn, Co. Leitrim