School: Ráth Bhán (roll number 15996)
- Location:
- Rathbaun, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Ss Ó Donnchadha
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“Long ago there was a man living in a very small farm at the butt of Nephin.”
(continued from previous page)would wish for and Paddy told him about his blind daughter. The Ghost told him to get a thorn from a whitethorn bush that was growing over his mother's grave and stick it through a pimple that was in the back of his daughter's head and she would be cured.The ghost took Paddy on his back and brought him to the old church again. Then he gave him a little pot and told him when when he would need food, to strike the pot three times and say "Food drink and attandants". The ghost told Paddy not to tell anyone of anything he had seen or got that niight. Then the ghost left him.Paddy went home(continues on next page)- Collector
- Nora Walshe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mr Tom Walshe
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Mayo