School: Sruthar (C.)
- Location:
- Shrule, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Bríd, Bean Uí Éanacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0102, Page 129
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- (continued from previous page)and when he came to the pond it was so calm that he thought it looked like glass. Then when he was about to begin to fish he heard a voice saying: "Come here, come here, and you will get plenty of eels". But, on looking around, he could see no one near him. Then he listened and he heard the voice once more. This time he felt that there was a supernatural being near him. Then he listened, and he heard it once more. So he went home, too frightened to catch any eels. People afterwards said it must have been a spirit in the waters of the pool.
Long ago there used to be one or two large wooden gates across the side roads So it happened that there were two or three gates across this road near the Abbey. There were a few men coming home from a wake one night, and just before they came to the gate, it swung open. Then when they passed through, it closed again swiftly. The strange part of it was that no person could be seen near the gate. But there was a person (a woman) passing by very late another night, and she saw a strange figure standing at the gate, and she was very frightened.
- Collector
- Margaret Nalty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kill, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Tom Nalty
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Kill, Co. Mayo
