School: Ballyburke (roll number 5125)
- Location:
- Bellaburke, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Cheallaigh
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- The grave-yard.
There is a grave-yard in our village. It is a not a big grave-yard but there was a good many people buried there. We have a grave there and there was three of our people buried there. There was a small chapel there long ago. There is a small head-stone over our grave. There was a man coming down from the chapel one night and he heard awful talk inside in the grave and what do you think they were a lot of wild-cats going to a house where there was only one man and they were going to kill him. That was the same man that was coming down from the chapel. So he ran home as(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Ludden
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bellaburke, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Maggie Ludden
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bellaburke, Co. Mayo
