School: Ardkeenan
- Location:
- Ardkeenan, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: John Meares
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0270, Page 269
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Ardkeenan
- XML Page 269
- XML “Stories”
- XML “Stories”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)The man was buried and Mary Anne was very sorrowful, she lived alone for a month then one morning she got a very surpriseful letter stating that her father was coming home in a week. When the man came home he told her the whole story.
There was a ,man in the hospital of the same name as mine and he died and the letter was sent to you". None of the neighbours believed him for a long time as they believed him to be dead, and they would not let him ramble in their houses. They thought he was a ghost. After a while they began to speak to him but he was always pointed as the ghost.
- One night a man named Michael McManus was coming home very late from rambling. He had to pass by a grave-yard. As he was passing by the grave-yard he heard a sound. He pulled the brakes of his bicycle and went slowly. As he(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary F. Meares
- Gender
- Female
