School: Tattenclave
- Location:
- Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: B. Ní Chróinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0949, Page 167
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- (continued from previous page)this school are dead now. Some of the people would go home for their lunch. The poor children would not have any bread to school with them. They had not any shoes to wear. When they would get new shoes they would have to wear them for seven so eight years. They would not get long holidays at school.
- One night long ago Peter Carroll Liscomiskey was coming home from Murphy's. A man named John Murphy was after telling him a ghost story about Pat Hall that was dead for yen years--that he was seen sitting on the ditch beside his own house in Arwark.
Peter Carroll did not believe him and said he would go home to see would be see anything. When he was going by Stall's old house he heard a noise and he saw a light in it also. There was no one living there that time. Pat Hall that was dead came out and took Peter in. Before he found, he was sitting at a fire in the house and he(continues on next page) - Collector
- Peter Smyth
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Liscumasky, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- James Kierans
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Corleck, Co. Monaghan
