Volume: CBÉ 0460 (Part 2)
- Date
- 1938
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- Ghosts - There was a man by the name of Lar Ennis living down there where Bob Whitty is living now. He died with lumps in his neck. The night he died, several people met a turkey cock going along the road, and some of them tried to catch him but they couldn't. An ould woman by the name of Mag Coughlan threw out her shawl over him, but 'twas no good. Just then word came that Lar Ennis was dead; and they all knew that the turkey cock was ould Larry's spirit going off.
- Ghosts------
Hickey's place in Slevoy was haunted too. I worked there for a while myself and another man by the name of Jim Murphy. This night Murphy went down the way of the ould castle with a cock of hay for some calves. I was coming from work and I stood there at the ould castle for a minute. Jim never saw me until he was just at me. When he saw me he fainted off in a cock immediately. They were a couple of hours before they could bring(continues on next page)