School: Cnoc an Doire (C.) (roll number 2419)
- Location:
- Cnoc an Doire, Co. Chiarraí
- Teachers: Nóra Ní Chorcoráin Maire Nic Chárthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0460, Page 322
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“One night a boy named Jack Scott was coming home from town and it was twelve o'clock the dead hour of the night.”
(continued from previous page)long and he ran home and he got several faintspells and the old people said he was never in the better of the fright he got until he died. His name was Jack Scott and he lived in Gortlea.
Mrs Corcoran
(Maureen Corcoran) Knockaderry
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“A man was coming from Killarney one night about 12 o'clock.”
A man was coming from Killarney one night about 12 O' clock. As he was coming towards a bridge in Rosanean, the horse stopped in the road and began snorting and would not cross the bridge.
The man got off the horse and went into a house which was near. He got a coal from the woman of the house, and the horse crossed the bridge without any bother, when he had the lighted coal in his hand. The man continued on his journey and reached home without any further interruptions.
When he reached home, he stabled his horse and went to bed. The dairy was next to the stable and when the man got up in the morning he found(continues on next page) - Collector
- Bridie Keane
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Maurice Keane
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cill Liath, Co. Chiarraí