School: Drong (roll number 15699)
- Location:
- Drung, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seán P. Mac Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1117, Page 186
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- (continued from previous page)through the air in the direction of the south.
I have heard of how an imaginary Ghost cured a woman of rheumatism many years ago.
It happened in this way. some tramps had broken into a Church and finding nothing worth, they came to the conclusion they would put up for the night and that they would light a fire, go out to some of the fields and catch a sheep, bring it in, and roast it.
One of the tramps stayed inside, a second went for some firewood, and the third went out for the sheep.
It happened that a man belonging to the Church was passing by, and saw a light in one of the Church windows, and became afraid, and hurried home.
Pale and nervous he entered the house, and related what he had seen to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Mc Cauley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drung, Co. Donegal
