School: Gleann Fleisge
- Location:
- Glenflesk, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Donnchadh Ó Spiolláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0457, Page 744
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“There was a man walking along the road one night.”
There was a man walking along the road one night. There was a bog on one side of the road. The man saw the body of a man without any head walking in the bog after he walking a piece his right hand fell off and went down through the ground. He went another piece and his left hand fell off after another piece his right leg fell off and after another piece his left leg fell off. His body moved away itself and went down through the ground also.The man ran away home and he told everyone he saw. The next night three men came into his house with a spade and shovel they told the man that they were going where he saw the man. They asked him to go with them. They went away and when they came near a pool in the bog they started to dig and the first sod they dug they got the head of a man in it.They went to where the man saw the parts of the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Denis Donovan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Rusheen More, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- John Donovan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Rusheen More, Co. Kerry