School: Beith Mhór (Beaghmore) (roll number 1209)
- Location:
- Beagh More, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Pilib Mac Aonghusa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0229, Page 432
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- Ghost Stories
Collected by May Reilly
Drumderglin
Carrigallen
From Mr James O Reilly (27) (same address)
There was a man called Hugh Doherty living in Drumgerglin. He was a drunkard. His mother was dead for some years. One night, he was coming home from his "ceilidh" he met his mother. He had a man with him. She told him to pull a blade of grass from the ground so that the man could not hear. She told him to give back a cup of salt she had borrowed when she was alive. She also told him to not drink. She was never seen after.
There was a man in Gorthermone coming home one night. He met a ghost and began to fight with him. The man was gaining; when the ghost blew his breath upon him and he died in a week.
There was a girl named Tiernan going to a dance one night. She changed her boots going by Aughavas chapel. She left them into a confession box and a priest threw them back out. The girl could not go up the chapel; from that time onward.
There was a house owned by a man called(continues on next page)
- Collector
- May Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumderglin, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mr James O' Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 27
- Address
- Drumderglin, Co. Leitrim
