School: Goirtín
- Location:
- Gorteen, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Dhubhthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0078, Page 206
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- (continued from previous page)She asked the monk if he had said anything to the ghost. He said he had not. The old woman said that if she was able to walk she would talk to the ghost. A young servant man said he would carry her out. He got a sheet and put the woman into it and went out to the ghost. When the man that was eating the nuts saw him coming, he thought it was the man with the sheep. Did you get her? said the tailor. "I did" said the servant. He threw down the old woman and ran off. The woman was so frightened that she ran as fast as she could.
Above story collected from Ned Connaughton, 83 yrs, Tample, Gurteen, Woodlawn. He heard the story from Nicholas Finn, 40 years ago. Nicholas Finn was 45 years at that time. Matthias Finn, a brother of Nicholas Finn, told this story, at a competition in Kansas City, U.S.A. He told it in Irish and got a prize for it.
- Informant
- Ned Connaughton
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 83
- Address
- Temple, Co. Galway
