School: An Cam (Camp), Tra Lí
- Location:
- Camp, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Seán Ó Murchadha
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- (continued from previous page)north Kerry & it was haunted. Any work man that ever went there would be put up stairs to bed, when going to bed about eleven o'clock at night.
They used to see a tall man walking around the room. By all accounts this mad died a few years before that in the same room, and the bed where the old man died was left in the room after his death.
The workmen say this old man used to come out of the bed & go down stairs to the kitchen & then they would start singing & dancing until cockrow in the morning. This thing was going on so long he had to give up farming so any workers would not stay in the house.
- There was a man from Curraheen & he was a great huntsman. His name was Connor he had a swift grey hound, so a moonlight night about twelve o'clock he was crossing(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mícheál O Seaghdha
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Curraduff, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Thomas Gorman
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Occupation
- Feirmeoir
- Address
- Curraduff, Co. Kerry
