School: Fanaid (roll number 10658)
- Location:
- Fánaid, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Cáitlín Bean Uí Dhochartaigh
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- The Fanad Ghost story is the most romantic story in Fanad.
An ancestor of the present Foster family insulted a priest who was passing with his hounds when out hunting through a tilled field of Fosters.
The priest called down some maladiction on the household & that very night the inmates of the Foster household discovered their home was haunted. The chairs hopped from them when they were about to be seated; the eggs put on to boil might remain quietly until boiled but when placed in the egg-cups to be eaten out hopped chirping(continues on next page)- Collector
- Cáitlín Bean Uí Dhochartaigh
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Informant
- Hugh Mc Ateer
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 76
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Drumfad, Co. Donegal