School: Gortlitreach (roll number 15960)
- Location:
- Gortletteragh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seosamh Mac Cionnaith
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0220, Page 135
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- (continued from previous page)him and he cut his knees. He went home the people of the house asked him, did he see the ghosts. He said he did, and that they began to play and when he went to strike the ball they threw a trip on him and that he cut the knee out of his trousers. But he was not afraid.They said that in a certain graveyard a girl used to come up in a coffin, and that anyone who saw her never did a bit of good. The lad said he would go to see her. He went and she came up in the coffin. When he saw her he said "get up out of that box and let me into it, saying that he was tired and that she was at because she lying in it all day. She got out of it and he went into it. He slept that night in it and when(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Joseph Campbell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 20
- Address
- Foorchossagh, Co. Leitrim
