School: Tulach Cruinn, Inis (roll number 7708)
- Location:
- Tullycreen Upper, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Maranáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0601, Page 009
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: Tulach Cruinn, Inis
- XML Page 009
- XML “Scéal Grinn”
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
- 9.
Sgéal Grinn.
About eight years ago my father and pat Behan of Doonbeg ,who was visiting us ,stayed up telling ghost stories.They went to bed about three o'clock in the morning
and about four they heard a terrible
noise in the kitchen and one said to the other "Do you hear the ghost".
So they said they would go down stairs and find out what it was all about.They felt very nervous and were comparing who would go first.At last they went into the kitchen and they saw what they a little fairy beside the fire.Pat behan took him up and said "In the name of God who are you or do you belong to the next world".
"Tell me what is troubling you".He got a bottle of holy-water and kept sprinkling it over the ghost as he thought.it was no ghost but my(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridie Brennan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Pat Behan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 71
- Address
- Doonbeg, Co. Clare
