School: Barrow (roll number 11850)
- Location:
- Barrow, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Ml. Ó hUallacháin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0438, Page 103
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Barrow
- XML Page 103
- XML “Ghost Stories”
- XML “Ghost Stories”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)a coal into his own churn also. Then his wife came in and she told him(that she told him) that she could not make the butter, her husband told her that her butter was made, and when she came out again her butter was made. Long ago there was a man living in this district. When he died there was a wake in the house that night. Two men were coming to the wake and they took a short-cut through the fields. As they were going along they heard a man calling them and he told them to wait for him and he would go also. This man was the man that was dead and he was at his own wake and all the people saw him there. The
- Long ago there was a man living in this district. When he died there was a wake in the house that night. Two men were coming to the wake and they they took a short-cut through the fields. As they were going along they heard a man calling them and he told them to wait for him and he would go also. This man was the man that was dead and he was at his own wake and all the people saw him there. The(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Tomás Ó Dubháin
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John Devane
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
