School: Naas (Mercy Convent) (roll number 15040)

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   About 22 years ago, a man named Robert Seargent was going from town to a farm-house on the Ballymore road at a very late hour. According to the stories of the people a huge black dog was seen every night, and it was supposed to be a ghost. People were so much frightened that they would not traverse the road after midnight. On this particular night Mr. Seargent walked along whistling, he was in a happy frame of mind, drinking in the beauty of the silent night. Suddenly he remembered the black dog, and on hearing a noise behind him, he turned quickly around, and there sitting on the path was the ghostily animal its eyes staring like pools of fire. A tiny stream seperated Mr. Seargent and the dog and as tradition has it a ghost will not cross water. Then the man whistled and called the spectre to him, but it immediately faded from sight, it eventually disappeared through the trees behind it. Mr. Seargent was a little startled, but he continued his journey and tried to put all thoughts of the harrassing experience out of his

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Kathleen Coffey

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Naas, Co. Kildare

   Informant

   Mr Robert Seargent

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Kilcullen Road, Co. Kildare