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   “There is another story told of a man who was always drinking.”

   

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   looked around him and he saw the whole graveyard covered with people after getting out of their graves. He was in an awful state and was going to fly out of the graveyard when he saw the two people on the flag beside him shaking hands. Then they began to talk about the other world, and where they were, and some of them were in heaven and more of them were in purgatory and so on. Tom remained in the graveyard on the flag until half past three oclock and then all of a sudden all the people rushed in under the headstones and down in the graves and in a second there was nobody to be seen. Then he heard all the wakes in the neighbourhood growing and he went out of the graveyard and went home. He was fairly sober by this time, it was

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   History Edit

   Date

   16 June 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Seán Canavan