School: Beith Mhór (Beaghmore) (roll number 1209)

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   and woman and they used to be always fighting and the man died and in some time after the woman died, and the night the woman was dead there came a fily to the door. And the whole wake people went out and the filey came in, and the dead woman rose out of bed and she and the fily fought until they were tired. The woman went back and lay in the bed again as a corpse and the fily turned into a man upon the street when he was going away.

   

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2. A Ghost Story

   

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   There a family named Sweeney in Druminchin, long ago. There was a ghost in their house. The man of the house worked for Parson Eager. He had some of Eager's books in his house, one night At twelve o'clock he was wakened. He heard his brothers voice at the window. His brother told him to get up and pray because danger was coming. This brother was dead ten years of this time. The man got up and got holy water, beads and a prayer book. He heard the noise of a carriage coming up the

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   Topics

   1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   James Kenny

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Miltron Glebe, Co. Leitrim

   Informant

   Pat Kennedy

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   75

   Address

   Miltron Glebe, Co. Leitrim