School: Na Creaga
- Location:
- Creggs, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Liam Ó Breandáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0015, Page 173
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- (continued from previous page)As he did so, cold sweat broke out all over. For looking down out of the loft was the skull that he had kicked around the grave-yard that day. He turned away his head in fear, but where-ever he looked he seemed to see the skull. There was more than a skull in it for below the skull was a long shapeless body. At last it jumped down and asked the man if he were as good a man then as he was that day. It kept repeating this until the man died with fright.
After this the ghost continued to appear in the house. A priest was sent for, and he read mass in the house and after this the ghost did not appear.
- Collector
- Tommie Fitzmaurice
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coalpits, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Bridget Burke
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coalpits, Co. Galway
