School: Scoil Mhuire, Béal Átha hAmhnais (roll number 11438)
- Location:
- Ballyhaunis, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: S.T. Ó Maolagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0107, Page 177
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- (continued from previous page)went out to where there was a stack of hay and waited there for the ghost. They soon heard it coming up the stairs as it was on top of the slates he shot it and it fell down in the form of a bitch with 14 tits each side. A few days after the man from Greenwood was shooting and the breach bursted and shot himself.
- There once lived a man in Gurteen who made his lively-hood on racehorses. He was a very rich man and owned six racehorses. At long last he got broke and sold them all except one. So one day he was going to Galway(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Finn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gorteen, Co. Mayo
