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   “There was once a man who lived a few parishes away from here and he had a wife and children.”

   

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   I will give it to you." "Be sure to have it tomorrow night," said he, "and don't tell anyone." She got up next morning and went to her friends and asked them for the money. On her arrival home she met her parish priest. He asked her how she was getting on since she buried her husband. She looked so down-hearted that he asked her was there anything wrong with her. She said that her husband, John, appeared to her last night at twelve o'clock and asked her for ten pounds that he owed to a man and that he could not go to heaven until he paid it. "Oh," said the priest, "be sure to give it to him." At the same time he went to the guards and told them to watch for the ghost. They came to the house and hid in the press. John came again at twelve o'clock that night. He knocked at the window again and told Nancy to let him in. She opened the door and he walked in. He was bare-footed and dressed in a shroud. She handed him the money. He said, "God bless you. I can pay the man now and go to heaven." He asked to see the children. He kissed each of them and then turned to go. "God bless you now and forever," said he to his wife. Just then one of the guards

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Teresa Linnane

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Thomas Linnane

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   64

   Address

   Kilmacrah, Co. Galway